If you mean by this that the Constitution of the United States gives you the right to go into the Territories belonging to the people of this country, and take with you not only your human chattels, but also your bloody slave laws, I say, you have no such constitutional rights.
Tompkins argues against the constitutional justification for bringing slave laws into U.S. territories.
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Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
Men who commit acts declared by the whole civilized world to be piracy, you permit to escape, while you say you will hang the man who circulates Helper's book.
But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
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