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I say it would be an act of injustice to deny one man any right in the Territory that another man has, and would be just cause of complaint.
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Tompkins argues that denying rights to any individual in the territories is unjust.
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I believe that no cancer on the physical body was ever more certain, steady, and fatal, in its progress, than is the cancer of slavery on the political body of the State of Virginia.
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.
There can be no other reason than the one given by George Mason eighty years ago: slavery produces a most pernicious effect upon manners.
Slavery had then existed in this country more than two hundred years, yet scarce a man could be then found so bold and so reckless as to proclaim it just and righteous, a humane, a Christian institution.
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