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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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Tompkins critiques the notion that morality is determined solely by profitability in the context of slavery.
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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.
This time-honored compact was annulled, the barrier between freedom and slavery broken down.
There can be no other reason than the one given by George Mason eighty years ago: slavery produces a most pernicious effect upon manners.
It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
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