Cydnor Tompkins: “It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.”

Take from place and power the men whose hands and faces are reeking and smoking with the blood of our people in Kansas, and put them to death.

But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.

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…

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.