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There has been no “due” process of law to reduce him to this miserable condition; there has been no process of law at all.
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Mann argues that the lack of due process has led to the unjust condition of slavery.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
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