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Their freedom is guarantied to them by the constitution of the United States, and by the constitutions and laws of the states respectively in which they dwell.
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Mann asserts that the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom to all individuals, regardless of race.
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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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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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