Now, what greater outrage can be inflicted upon a man than to seize, and bind, and carry him into a foreign jurisdiction, where not only is the evidence different, by which his rights may be proved, but where the law also is different, by which his rights are to be adjudicated.
Mann emphasizes the injustice of forcibly transporting individuals to jurisdictions with different laws that could harm their rights.
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The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
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.
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