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Though liable to err,--and what human being is not?--yet his principles were believed by him to be in accordance with the great moral laws of the universe.
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Mann acknowledges human fallibility while asserting that true principles align with universal moral laws.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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