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Now, fellow-citizens, you know that all the men who are guilty of these great derelictions from civil and social duty are the men who uphold the Fugitive Slave law.
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Mann accuses those who support the Fugitive Slave Law of neglecting their civil and social responsibilities.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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