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Great Britain annulled our laws for prohibiting slavery; we propose to annul an existing law of Oregon prohibiting slavery.
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Mann highlights the hypocrisy of repealing laws against slavery while condemning British actions.
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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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