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They not only claim the right to take their negroes into the Territories, but they claim to take laws there that will deny to every man the freedom of speech and the liberty of the press.
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Tompkins warns against the implications of bringing oppressive laws into new territories, threatening freedoms.
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I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.
I charge them as direct, positive aggressions, on the rights of the free people of the North.
We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.
It will not be conceived, from these observations, that it is my wish to hold these unhappy people (negroes) in slavery.
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