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Congress, in attempting to reënact the Maryland laws, to uphold slavery in this District, transcended the limits of its constitutional power.
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Mann asserts that Congress overstepped its constitutional authority by attempting to uphold slavery in the District.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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