They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
It's got to be both houses and the people coming together in unanimous decision when you start messing with the Constitution.
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.
We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slaveholding States are of theirs, and rather better than they can be of ours.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.