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I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.
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Tompkins conveys his sincere wish for a plan to be adopted for the abolition of slavery.
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The agricultural, the manufacturing, the great commercial interests of this country, are entirely ignored, neglected, and forgotten, that the interests of one hundred thousand slaveholders may be advanced.
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.
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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