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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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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the…”
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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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Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
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.
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.
We will not follow your example; we will not pass laws in plain and palpable violation of your rights, and in palpable violation of the Constitution, and then drive out, by threats or violence, any man who may come into the State to test…
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