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He that refuses the common acts of hospitality to these victims, when fleeing from their bondage, denies his Lord and Master.
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Mann emphasizes the moral obligation to assist those escaping slavery, framing it as a Christian duty.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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