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XVII. - Lysander Spooner, Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States [1860]Edition used:Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860).
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XVII.If any portion of our people are, in the view of our constitution, lawful property within the United States, then, constitutionally speaking, their owners have the right to carry them out of the United States into any other part of the world, and there hold them, or lose them, according to the laws that prevail there. If, on the other hand, no part of our people are, in the view of the constitution, lawful property within the United States, then, constitutionally speaking, we are bound to prevent any of them being carried out of the country as slaves, no matter what part of the world they may be carried to. And this is all we have to do with slavery outside of the United States. |
