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 never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me, to possess another slave by purchase, it being my first wish to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.
The assertion is frequently made, that white men cannot work in the hot latitudes of the South, and this is offered as a reason why there should be black slaves there.
We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.
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