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On the contrary, nothing can be more clear, than that the civil condition or status of every man found in a free state is that of a free man.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “On the contrary, nothing can be more clear, than that the civil condition or status of every man found in a free state…”
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Mann asserts that anyone found in a free state should be presumed free, countering the presumption of slavery.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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