Depraved, corrupt, and polluted presses exerted themselves to the utmost in the work of slander and detraction; hireling scribblers for worse than hireling presses glutted themselves and made their meals on good men's names.
Tompkins condemns the corrupt practices of certain press outlets that spread falsehoods about honorable individuals.
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I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
Before you complain of the free States, arrest and punish the scoundrels who so cruelly treated the Irishman at Columbia, South Carolina, for no offence but saying that slavery was detrimental to free labor.
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