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The agricultural, the manufacturing, the great commercial interests of this country, are entirely ignored, neglected, and forgotten, that the interests of one hundred thousand slaveholders may be advanced.
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Tompkins highlights the neglect of major economic interests in favor of a small group of slaveholders.
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Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
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Before you complain of the free States, arrest and punish the scoundrels who so cruelly treated the Irishman at Columbia, South Carolina, for no offence but saying that slavery was detrimental to free labor.
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