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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.
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Tompkins asserts a strong belief in the inevitable freedom of enslaved people as a matter of fate.
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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.
Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
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.
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