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I take the Quaker ground upon this subject; I will not assist to execute it, though I shall suffer it to execute itself on me.
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Mann expresses his refusal to actively support a law he believes is unjust, aligning himself with Quaker principles.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
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