Its conservatism consists in its avowed determination to dissolve the Union, should a majority of our people, in the exercise of their legal and constitutional rights, elect a President not acceptable to that party.
Tompkins warns that the Democratic party threatens to dissolve the Union if their candidate is not elected.
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It will not be conceived, from these observations, that it is my wish to hold these unhappy people (negroes) in slavery.
I believe that no cancer on the physical body was ever more certain, steady, and fatal, in its progress, than is the cancer of slavery on the political body of the State of Virginia.
Their philanthropy was without regard to complexion; they abhorred slavery, as based on injustice and cruelty; and more, as dangerous to our liberties.
Is not a great party now engaged in the ungrateful task of forging chains for a large portion of the people of this country?
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