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O, how these declarations contrast with what a manufacturer in a neighboring county is reported to have said,--that if he could work his mills any cheaper with slave labor than with free, he would employ slaves!
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Mann highlights the ethical dilemma faced by manufacturers regarding the use of slave labor for profit.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
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