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Men who commit acts declared by the whole civilized world to be piracy, you permit to escape, while you say you will hang the man who circulates Helper's book.
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “Men who commit acts declared by the whole civilized world to be piracy, you permit to escape, while you say you will…”
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Tompkins condemns the hypocrisy of allowing pirates to escape punishment while targeting those who promote anti-slavery literature.
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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.
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The great pursuits by which twenty-five million people live, are not considered worthy the attention of this Democratic party; while one hundred thousand aristocrats require its entire services.
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