Cydnor Tompkins: “I charge that the murders, robberies, and arsons, in Kansas, were aggressions of slavery.”

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.

Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.

Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.

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.