Cydnor Tompkins: “I charge upon slavery, that the enforcement of the Missouri compromise was an aggression upon the North.”

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

But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.

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…

I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.