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As well may one declare the judgment of a court to be legal or illegal, merciful or tyrannous, without looking back to the allegations and proofs on which it is founded.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of understanding the foundational arguments behind conclusions.
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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.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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