Yet the sixth section of the act provides not only for the case of slaves escaping from one state into another state, but for their escape from a state into a territory, and for an escape from a territory into a state, and for an escape from one territory into another territory.
Mann critiques the Fugitive Slave law for extending its provisions beyond what the constitution allows.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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