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In the eye of the legislators of the free states, and in the eye of the courts of the free states, so far as their domestic polity is concerned, there can be no such creature as a slave.
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Mann states that in the eyes of free state legislators and courts, slaves do not exist.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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