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Why, then, should the courts of justice be arraigned, if a freeman, instead of a slave, is sometimes consigned to bondage?
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Mann questions the justice system's role in the wrongful consignment of a freeman to slavery.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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