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For myself, I will engage in any honorable measure most likely to secure freedom to the new territories.
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Mann expresses his willingness to engage in any honorable action to secure freedom for new territories.
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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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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