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Though, on many accounts, I have a high respect for the author of that compromise, yet I regard it as the most unfortunate act ever done,--the most fatal precedent ever set by this government.
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Mann critiques a significant compromise as a detrimental precedent for the government.
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The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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