But these threats do not move or alarm me, and for the best of all possible reasons; I do not believe that the gentlemen who make these threats intend to leave their places on this floor--nor, if they should, would the country suffer any loss.
Tompkins expresses confidence that threats from opponents will not disrupt the legislative process.
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There can be no other reason than the one given by George Mason eighty years ago: slavery produces a most pernicious effect upon manners.
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.
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.
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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