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What noble barriers are these against the oppression of a powerful government, and the malignant passions of powerful men!
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Mann praises the legal protections that serve as barriers against government oppression.
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Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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