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They would be scourged, driven by violence from the State, and might be considered fortunate should they escape with their lives.
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “They would be scourged, driven by violence from the State, and might be considered fortunate should they escape with…”
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He warns of the violent repercussions that would befall abolitionists in the Old Dominion, emphasizing the dangers of their stance.
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I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
Before you complain of the free States, arrest and punish the scoundrels who so cruelly treated the Irishman at Columbia, South Carolina, for no offence but saying that slavery was detrimental to free labor.
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.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
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