I hazard nothing in saying that the ordinance of 1787 has been expressly referred to as valid, or expressly or impliedly reënacted, a dozen times, by the Congress of the United States; and, in the state courts of Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri, it has been adjudged to be constitutional.
Mann claims that the ordinance of 1787 has been reaffirmed multiple times by Congress and upheld in various state courts.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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