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Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.
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Tompkins condemns the government's focus on extending slavery at the expense of broader national interests.
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It was dangerous to liberty then; no man now apprehends any danger to liberty, unless from the same source.
It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the people of this country!
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