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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845
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We fully and unanimously recognize the sovreignity of each state to legislate exclusively on the subject which is tolerated within the limit we concede that congress under the present national compact has no right to interfere with any of the slave states in relation to this momentous subject But we maintain that congress has a right and is solemnly bound to suppress the domestic slave trade between the several slave states and abolish slavery in those portions of our territory which the Constitution has place under its exclusive jurisdiction We also maintain that there are at the present time the highest obligations resting upon the people of the free states to remove slavery by moral and political action as prescribed in the Constitution of the US. They are now living under a pledge of their tremendous physical fore to [????] the galng[??] fetters of tyranny upon the limbs of millions in the Southern States They are liable to the ealed[?] at any moment to
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We fully and unanimously recognize the sovreignity of each state to legislate exclusively on the subject which is tolerated within the limit we concede that congress under the present national compact has no right to interfere with any of the slave states in relation to this momentous subject But we maintain that congress has a right and is solemnly bound to suppress the domestic slave trade between the several slave states and abolish slavery in those portions of our territory which the Constitution has place under its exclusive jurisdiction We also maintain that there are at the present time the highest obligations resting upon the people of the free states to remove slavery by moral and political action as prescribed in the Constitution of the US. They are now living under a pledge of their tremendous physical fore to [????] the galng[??] fetters of tyranny upon the limbs of millions in the Southern States They are liable to the ealed[?] at any moment to
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