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Yet this is precisely, and in totidem verbis, what the pro-slavery argument says to the respondent when he is brought before the commissioner and put in peril of his freedom.
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Mann criticizes the pro-slavery argument for denying individuals their rights in legal proceedings.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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