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I charge upon slavery, that the enforcement of the Missouri compromise was an aggression upon the North.
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Tompkins charges that the enforcement of the Missouri Compromise was an aggressive act against the North.
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Was it a mere speculation, a wild fancy, that the framers of the Constitution would not admit that there could be such a thing as property in man?
This time-honored compact was annulled, the barrier between freedom and slavery broken down.
Chairman, that God's sun does not shine upon a nobler, prouder, more prosperous, and elevated class of people, than the non-slaveholders of the South.
Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
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