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We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.
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Tompkins emphasizes the moral obligation to mourn the existence of slavery and its impact on society.
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The columns of the Daily Globe teemed with fierce and fiery denunciations of all who would not bow to the behests of pro-slavery power.
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.
If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.
Depraved, corrupt, and polluted presses exerted themselves to the utmost in the work of slander and detraction; hireling scribblers for worse than hireling presses glutted themselves and made their meals on good men's names.
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