Cydnor Tompkins: “But I am not willing to give to a man from a slave State any greater rights than to a man from a free State.”

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

Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.

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.

Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.