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Before you complain of the free States, arrest and punish the scoundrels who so cruelly treated the Irishman at Columbia, South Carolina, for no offence but saying that slavery was detrimental to free labor.
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Tompkins calls for accountability for those who mistreat others, particularly in the context of slavery and free labor.
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But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
The great pursuits by which twenty-five million people live, are not considered worthy the attention of this Democratic party; while one hundred thousand aristocrats require its entire services.
The agricultural, the manufacturing, the great commercial interests of this country, are entirely ignored, neglected, and forgotten, that the interests of one hundred thousand slaveholders may be advanced.
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