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Is not a great party now engaged in the ungrateful task of forging chains for a large portion of the people of this country?
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “Is not a great party now engaged in the ungrateful task of forging chains for a large portion of the people of this…”
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Tompkins critiques the political climate of his time, suggesting that a major political party is perpetuating oppression.
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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.
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.
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.
Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
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