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Now, sir, with these glorious attributes of “law,” I say the Fugitive Slave law of the last session possesses not one quality in common, nor in similitude.
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Mann argues that the Fugitive Slave Law lacks any honorable qualities associated with true law.
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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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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