If this Fugitive Slave law continues for a single year, I hope every free state will pass a law inflicting condign punishment upon every man who directly or indirectly assists in sending any man into southern bondage, unless he can prove before a jury that the man so sent was a slave.
Mann expresses his hope that free states will punish those who assist in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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