We have said that the slaveholders hold their own laws and Constitutions in the same contempt as those of the Federal Government, whenever they conflict with the security and permanency of slavery.
Tappan asserts that slaveholders disregard both their own laws and federal laws when they conflict with their interests in maintaining slavery.
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