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Do we ruthlessly tear asunder the sacred ties of affection by which God has bound the parent to the child and the child to the parent?
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Mann highlights the emotional and relational damage caused by the institution of slavery.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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