He had, no doubt, a vivid idea of the liberty that is enjoyed by non-slaveholders in the South, when he remembered that these cruelties and barbarities were inflicted on him for expressing a rational and honest opinion relative to this "peculiar institution.
Tompkins reflects on the harsh realities faced by those who oppose slavery in the South, highlighting the consequences of expressing dissent.
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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.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.
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.
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