Even should the supreme court of the United States declare the law to be constitutional, then, though we must acknowledge their decision, as to the point decided, to be the law of the land, until it is set aside, yet, without any disrespect to that tribunal, we may still adhere to our former opinion.
Mann acknowledges the authority of the Supreme Court while maintaining his right to disagree with its decisions.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
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