Cydnor Tompkins: “We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.”

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.

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.

I have also endeavored to show what are the aims and objects of the Republican party; and if they cannot be tolerated--if such principles cannot be sustained by the people of any section of this country--it is the misfortune of that people.

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