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A surrender, therefore, by our northern business men, will be most disastrous to the very business that tempts them to surrender.
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Mann warns that concessions by Northern business leaders could harm their own economic interests in the long run.
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Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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