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You may go, and take your slaves with you, if you have a mind to run the risk; I say you shall not take your slave laws with you.
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Tompkins states that while individuals can bring slaves, they cannot impose slave laws in new territories.
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This time-honored compact was annulled, the barrier between freedom and slavery broken down.
The lust of power and dominion deadens their consciences; a million bales of cotton can blind their eyes alike to the flames of perdition and the glories of Paradise.
The spirit of the master is abating: that of the slave rising from the dust; his condition mollifying; the way, I hope, preparing, under the auspices of Heaven, for a total emancipation.
It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
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