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Never, never will I raise my hand or my voice to give a vote by which it can or may be extended.
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This statement reflects Mann's unwavering resolve against any vote that would allow the extension of slavery.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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