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Such an act violates the first principles of justice.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of justice in legal proceedings.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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