But these threats do not move or alarm me, and for the best of all possible reasons; I do not believe that the gentlemen who make these threats intend to leave their places on this floor--nor, if they should, would the country suffer any loss.
Tompkins expresses confidence that threats from opponents will not disrupt the legislative process.
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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.
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.
I have also endeavored to show what are the aims and objects of the Republican party; and if they cannot be tolerated--if such principles cannot be sustained by the people of any section of this country--it is the misfortune of that people.
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