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A great portion of these outcasts from human justice, I doubt not, are better prepared for the summons of instantaneous death than for this summons of instantaneous trial.
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Mann reflects on the tragic fate of those who are unjustly accused and unprepared for trial.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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