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This bond of national faith, this pledge of national honor, stood in the road of their ambition.
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “This bond of national faith, this pledge of national honor, stood in the road of their ambition.”
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He emphasizes the conflict between national honor and the ambitions of slavery advocates.
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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.
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.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
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