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Sir, I repudiate tbo idea of any intention on the part of the Republican party to interfere in any shape with that contract, or with any of the legitimate consequences of that oontract — any of those advantages to which the slave States are entitled in consequence of that con tract. But, sir, when it is said that a neces sary inference from this is the right to expand that institution, to spread it over territory where it does not exist, and to increase its po litical power thus, we take issue ...with him; he finds no such thing in the Constitution. Mr. MA SOX. The Senator I 1 -lieve un- derstands me, if I correctly a x . Iehend the language in which he has convex 1 the idea. 1 said this, that as a necessary inik -ence from the recognition, the protection, ard the ascrip- tion to it of political power, what followed ? It should be left to its just and legitimate sus- ceptibilities of expansion. What is the mean- ing of this? That those who hold slaves should be allowed to carry them into the Ter- ritories, the common property of the whole country.
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