Cydnor Tompkins: “I charge that the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case was an aggression upon the North.”

Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.

Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.

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.

We will not follow your example; we will not pass laws in plain and palpable violation of your rights, and in palpable violation of the Constitution, and then drive out, by threats or violence, any man who may come into the State to test…