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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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Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.
We will not follow your example; we will not pass laws in plain and palpable violation of your rights, and in palpable violation of the Constitution, and then drive out, by threats or violence, any man who may come into the State to test…
The agricultural, the manufacturing, the great commercial interests of this country, are entirely ignored, neglected, and forgotten, that the interests of one hundred thousand slaveholders may be advanced.
Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
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