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Which is of the greater importance, that the owner should recover his slave, or that the citizen should retain his freedom?
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Mann poses a rhetorical question about the importance of recovering a slave versus retaining a citizen's freedom.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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