But when the gentleman tells us that the non-slaveholders in his State are the most prosperous and the most elevated of mankind, the inquiry is at once presented to the mind, how elevated in the scale of existence can a man be who can neither read nor write?
Tompkins questions the claim that non-slaveholders are the most prosperous, highlighting the issue of illiteracy as a measure of elevation in society.
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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.
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.
Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.
I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
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