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But California is free already; free by her own act; free without any concession of theirs, and without any grace but the grace of God.
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Mann emphasizes California's freedom from slavery as a matter of principle and divine grace.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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