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It was a decision made for the benefit of slavery, and to deprive the people of the free States of their equal rights in the Territories.
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Tompkins argues that the Dred Scott decision favored slavery at the expense of free states' rights.
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I believe that no cancer on the physical body was ever more certain, steady, and fatal, in its progress, than is the cancer of slavery on the political body of the State of Virginia.
Thus it is decided, that whatever is profitable is also equitable: justice and injustice are mere matters of profit and loss; the morality or immorality of slavery a mere question of soil and climate.
It is daily threatened by men who are interested in slavery.
I charge them as direct, positive aggressions, on the rights of the free people of the North.
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