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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.
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Tompkins refuses to grant greater rights to individuals from slave states compared to those from free states.
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Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the people of this country!
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.
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 will not be conceived, from these observations, that it is my wish to hold these unhappy people (negroes) in slavery.
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