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Let all young men beware not to be seduced by any temptations of immediate profit or mistaken honor, to lift a hand in defence of this law.
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Mann warns young men against being tempted to support unjust laws for personal gain.
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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