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Now, I have two objections to this law, which absolve me from all obligations to execute it, or, in any way or manner, to assist in executing it.
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Mann outlines two reasons why he feels justified in refusing to comply with the Fugitive Slave Law.
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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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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