The Constitution gives you the right to reclaim your slaves, if they escape into any other State; this is all the right it gives you, and all there is in the Constitution that can by any possibility be construed to apply to slaves.
Tompkins explains the limited rights granted by the Constitution regarding the reclamation of escaped slaves.
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Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.
I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
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