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When the entire abolition of slavery takes place, it will be an event which must be most pleasing to every generous mind, and to every friend of human nature.
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Tompkins anticipates a future where the abolition of slavery will be celebrated by those who value humanity.
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It was dangerous to liberty then; no man now apprehends any danger to liberty, unless from the same source.
This time-honored compact was annulled, the barrier between freedom and slavery broken down.
Upon the decease of my wife, it is my desire that the slaves whom I hold in my own right should receive their freedom.
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.
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