Men at the North felt that this was a great aggression, a great outrage upon freedom; yet, to give quiet and restore harmony, they submitted, consoled by the national pledge that slavery should be extended no further, and believing that the nation might joyously look forward to long years of happiness and repose.
Tompkins discusses the feelings of Northern citizens regarding the expansion of slavery and their hopes for peace.
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Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the people of this country!
The columns of the Daily Globe teemed with fierce and fiery denunciations of all who would not bow to the behests of pro-slavery power.
Thus it is decided, that whatever is profitable is also equitable: justice and injustice are mere matters of profit and loss; the morality or immorality of slavery a mere question of soil and climate.
It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
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