Thomas Jefferson tells us that man is an imitative animal; therefore, if the assertion of the gentleman from Mississippi be correct, we must wonder why slaveholders do not relieve themselves of their negroes, that they may become equally noble, proud, prosperous, and elevated, with the non-slaveholder.
Tompkins critiques the logic of slaveholders by referencing Thomas Jefferson's view on human imitation and questioning the rationale behind slavery.
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It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
Such was the sentiment of North Carolina in 1774, as to the evil and great wrong of slavery.
Instead of supporting freedom, does it not advocate slavery and oppression?
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.
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