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If the slaveholder is permitted to go into the Territories, and take his slave laws, habits, and customs, the people of the free States are to a great extent excluded therefrom, and deprived of all rights therein.
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Tompkins warns that allowing slaveholders into free territories undermines the rights of free citizens.
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