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But the Fugitive Slave act knows no mercy or compassion of this kind.
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Mann criticizes the Fugitive Slave Act for its lack of mercy and compassion.
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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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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