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The name of every man who had voted for it, or who should defend it, would be entered upon that apostate list at whose head stands the name of Judas.
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Mann draws a parallel between those who support the Fugitive Slave Law and Judas, emphasizing betrayal.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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