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Recently, a whole community of moral, peaceable citizens were driven from their homes, compelled to abandon their property, and seek refuge in a free State, from the violence of slaveholders.
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Tompkins highlights the plight of citizens forced to flee their homes due to slaveholder violence.
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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.
The great pursuits by which twenty-five million people live, are not considered worthy the attention of this Democratic party; while one hundred thousand aristocrats require its entire services.
But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.
Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.
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