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Instead of supporting freedom, does it not advocate slavery and oppression?
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In this statement, Tompkins questions the moral stance of those who support slavery instead of freedom.
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If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.
They would be scourged, driven by violence from the State, and might be considered fortunate should they escape with their lives.
It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
It is our privilege, it is our duty, to repel those assaults, that the world may know that when the advanced guard of freedom is attacked, "our feet shall be always in the arena, and our shields shall hang always in the lists.
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