On the record
I refer to the Fugitive Slave act, so called; and I trust this will not be deemed an unfitting occasion to lay bare a portion of its enormities.
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Mann critiques the Fugitive Slave Act, highlighting its severe injustices.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
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.
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