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Before another year is past, will not that most execrable act in modern legislation be palliated or adopted by those who voted for this address?
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Mann predicts that the fugitive slave law will be either justified or adopted by those who previously opposed it, highlighting the inconsistency in political positions.
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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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.
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.
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