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Besides the inhumanity of this position, it contains a fallacy which is twin-brother to the one just considered.
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Mann highlights the inhumanity and logical fallacies in the commissioner's position, emphasizing the need for humane reasoning in law.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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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