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It must mean state, and can mean nothing else; for the laws of language admit no other construction.
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Mann asserts that the constitution must be interpreted to mean 'state' in the context of escaped slaves.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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