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I trust the reluctant and struggling editors of that paper are not to be overcome by the mammon of slavery, whatever disguises it may assume or compulsion it may use.
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Mann expresses hope that editors will resist the influence of slavery on their work.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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