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If a citizen of any slave State leaves it, and goes into a free State or Territory to reside, he takes with him none of the rights or powers with which his State clothed him while he remained therein.
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “If a citizen of any slave State leaves it, and goes into a free State or Territory to reside, he takes with him none of…”
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Tompkins explains that a citizen from a slave state loses certain rights when moving to a free state or territory.
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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.
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.
But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.
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