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They claim to take with them the right to condemn as a felon the man who may utter and maintain the Declaration of Independence, or the opinions of the conscript fathers of the Republic.
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Tompkins argues against the criminalization of dissenting opinions related to foundational American principles.
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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 us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.
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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