Political Quotes

Cydnor Tompkins: “Take from place and power the men whose hands and faces are reeking and smoking with the blood of our people in Kansas…”

On the record
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.
Said by
Cydnor Tompkins
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Tompkins demands justice for those responsible for violence against free-State individuals, advocating for severe consequences.

Share

More from Cydnor Tompkins

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

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org

The great pursuits by which twenty-five million people live, are not considered worthy the attention of this Democratic party; while one hundred thousand aristocrats require its entire services.

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation