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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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Tompkins explains that a citizen from a slave state loses certain rights when moving to a free state or territory.
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They would be scourged, driven by violence from the State, and might be considered fortunate should they escape with their lives.
It will not be conceived, from these observations, that it is my wish to hold these unhappy people (negroes) in slavery.
Thus it is decided, that whatever is profitable is also equitable: justice and injustice are mere matters of profit and loss; the morality or immorality of slavery a mere question of soil and climate.
The assertion is frequently made, that white men cannot work in the hot latitudes of the South, and this is offered as a reason why there should be black slaves there.
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