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When the court house is in chains, Faneuil Hall may well be dumb.
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Mann uses a metaphor to illustrate the silence of a significant venue in the face of injustice.
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Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
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