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We hear much said about the constitutional rights of the South; it is thundered in our ears from the beginning to the end of the session of Congress.
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Tompkins critiques the frequent references to Southern constitutional rights as overly emphasized.
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We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.
The columns of the Daily Globe teemed with fierce and fiery denunciations of all who would not bow to the behests of pro-slavery power.
I charge them as direct, positive aggressions, on the rights of the free people of the North.
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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