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When Texas and the south have got their slave states “to the number of four” into the Union, whence are we to obtain our one or more free states?
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Mann expresses concern over the imbalance of free and slave states in the Union.
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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.
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.
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.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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