If, then, these rights have no relation to complexion, all white men may be arbitrarily presumed to be slaves, and be deprived of the form of trial, secured to them by the constitution, just as well as any colored man can be.
Mann warns that if rights are not color-blind, any person could be unjustly presumed a slave.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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.
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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