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Why is it, fellow-citizens, that Massachusetts stands first, or among the first, in 1851, in her hostility to the Fugitive Slave law?
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Mann questions why Massachusetts is prominent in opposing the Fugitive Slave Law.
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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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