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Tompkins asserts that slavery poses a continuous threat to liberty in society.

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This time-honored compact was annulled, the barrier between freedom and slavery broken down.

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Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the people of this country!

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Slavery is detested; we feel its fatal effects; we deplore it with all the pity of humanity.

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If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.

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