Cydnor Tompkins: “Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of…”

I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.

Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.

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.

I have also endeavored to show what are the aims and objects of the Republican party; and if they cannot be tolerated--if such principles cannot be sustained by the people of any section of this country--it is the misfortune of that people.