I understand those Southern men, who talk so much about Southern rights, claim not only the right to take slaves into the Territories, but they claim the right to take slave laws and the habits and customs which are practiced in the slave States.
Tompkins critiques Southern claims of rights to bring both slaves and slave laws into new territories.
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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.
I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
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…
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