I understand those Southern men, who talk so much about Southern rights, claim not only the right to take slaves into the Territories, but they claim the right to take slave laws and the habits and customs which are practiced in the slave States.
Tompkins critiques Southern claims of rights to bring both slaves and slave laws into new territories.
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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.
They would be scourged, driven by violence from the State, and might be considered fortunate should they escape with their lives.
Labor of every species is disreputable, because performed mostly by slaves; the general aspect of the country marks the curse of a wasteful, idle, reckless population, who have no interest in the soil, and care not how much it is…
Upon the decease of my wife, it is my desire that the slaves whom I hold in my own right should receive their freedom.
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