On the record
Fellow-citizens, it has been asked why we are assembled here to-day, and not in the Hall consecrated to liberty.
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Mann addresses the audience about the significance of their gathering in the context of liberty.
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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.
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.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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