Cydnor Tompkins: “I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.”

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.

I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.

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

Men who commit acts declared by the whole civilized world to be piracy, you permit to escape, while you say you will hang the man who circulates Helper's book.