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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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Have we not reason to suspect that too many of our countrymen have ceased to be virtuous?
Slavery had then existed in this country more than two hundred years, yet scarce a man could be then found so bold and so reckless as to proclaim it just and righteous, a humane, a Christian institution.
Such was the sentiment of North Carolina in 1774, as to the evil and great wrong of slavery.
The lust of power and dominion deadens their consciences; a million bales of cotton can blind their eyes alike to the flames of perdition and the glories of Paradise.
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