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Chairman, that God's sun does not shine upon a nobler, prouder, more prosperous, and elevated class of people, than the non-slaveholders of the South.
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Tompkins praises the non-slaveholding class of the South, elevating their moral standing in contrast to slaveholders.
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The agricultural, the manufacturing, the great commercial interests of this country, are entirely ignored, neglected, and forgotten, that the interests of one hundred thousand slaveholders may be advanced.
Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.
I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
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