It is our privilege, it is our duty, to repel those assaults, that the world may know that when the advanced guard of freedom is attacked, "our feet shall be always in the arena, and our shields shall hang always in the lists.
Tompkins expresses a commitment to defend freedom against attacks, emphasizing the importance of standing firm in the face of opposition.
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Thus it is decided, that whatever is profitable is also equitable: justice and injustice are mere matters of profit and loss; the morality or immorality of slavery a mere question of soil and climate.
It will not be conceived, from these observations, that it is my wish to hold these unhappy people (negroes) in slavery.
Upon the decease of my wife, it is my desire that the slaves whom I hold in my own right should receive their freedom.
Labor of every species is disreputable, because performed mostly by slaves; the general aspect of the country marks the curse of a wasteful, idle, reckless population, who have no interest in the soil, and care not how much it is…
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