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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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Tompkins criticizes those who complain about slavery while ignoring the real threats posed by pirates involved in the slave trade.
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It was dangerous to liberty then; no man now apprehends any danger to liberty, unless from the same source.
There can be no other reason than the one given by George Mason eighty years ago: slavery produces a most pernicious effect upon manners.
We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.
I know it is claimed, by men in the slave States, that slavery is necessary to the highest development of human society; but I think the experience of members of Congress is, that slavery does not always produce this beneficial result.
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