I have also endeavored to show what are the aims and objects of the Republican party; and if they cannot be tolerated--if such principles cannot be sustained by the people of any section of this country--it is the misfortune of that people.
Tompkins outlines his views on the Republican party's principles and their acceptance in society, indicating a broader political context.
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Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
Men who commit acts declared by the whole civilized world to be piracy, you permit to escape, while you say you will hang the man who circulates Helper's book.
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