But to permit it in a new country, where yet no habits are formed which render it indispensable, what is it but to encourage that rapacity and fraud and violence against which we have so long pointed the denunciation of our penal code?
Lodge argues that allowing slavery in new territories would promote greed and violence, contrary to established laws.
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