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Notwithstanding these threats of disunion from the Democratic party, we hear much holy horror expressed in regard to a sectional party, and much laudation of a national, conservative party.
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Tompkins critiques the Democratic party's reaction to threats of disunion while highlighting hypocrisy.
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I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
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.
Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
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.
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