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This is the solid and indestructible ground of the maxim, that slavery can exist only by positive law; that it is a local institution; that the right of freedom must first be abolished before slavery can exist.
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Mann articulates the principle that slavery can only exist through positive law, and it is inherently a local institution.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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