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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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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.
I believe that no cancer on the physical body was ever more certain, steady, and fatal, in its progress, than is the cancer of slavery on the political body of the State of Virginia.
The spirit of the master is abating: that of the slave rising from the dust; his condition mollifying; the way, I hope, preparing, under the auspices of Heaven, for a total emancipation.
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.
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