On the record
On its very face, the constitution meets this pretension with a denial.
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Mann argues that the Constitution explicitly denies the notion that it supports slavery as a compact between states.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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.
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