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Every man who upholds this Fugitive Slave law acts them, whatever his language may be.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann asserts that supporting the Fugitive Slave law implicates individuals in its moral consequences, regardless of their stated beliefs.
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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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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