To contend that there is any power given in the Constitution which enables the slaveholder to take his slaves with him into a Territory, and not only his slaves, but his slave laws, and the slave laws of all the slave States, is an assumption of power that I am not willing to concede to him.
Tompkins critiques the assumption that the Constitution grants slaveholders the power to bring slaves and their laws into new territories.
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Instead of supporting freedom, does it not advocate slavery and oppression?
I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
Slavery is detested; we feel its fatal effects; we deplore it with all the pity of humanity.
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