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And again; those of us at the north who resist slavery extension, who mean to withstand its spread beyond the limits where it now exists, are denounced as Abolitionists.
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Mann addresses the label of 'Abolitionist' and the resistance against the expansion of slavery in the North.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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.
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