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The great and free republic of North America has transferred the unwritten law of Judge Lynch to its statute book.
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Mann highlights the troubling transformation of American law, equating it with mob justice.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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