Cydnor Tompkins: “It was dangerous to liberty then; no man now apprehends any danger to liberty, unless from the same source.”

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.

Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.

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.

Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.