Now, if the slaveholder has a right to be secure at home in the enjoyment of Slavery, so also has the freeman of the North--and every person there is presumed to be a freeman--an equal right to be secure at home in the enjoyment of Freedom.
This statement asserts that both slaveholders and freemen have rights to security in their respective conditions.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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