We will not follow your example; we will not pass laws in plain and palpable violation of your rights, and in palpable violation of the Constitution, and then drive out, by threats or violence, any man who may come into the State to test the validity of such enactments.
Tompkins emphasizes the importance of upholding rights and the Constitution, rejecting violent measures against those who challenge unjust laws.
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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.
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.
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.
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