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Who could have imagined, eight months ago, that a ministerial proceeding could put a citizen beyond remedy or reach of our courts?
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Mann expresses disbelief that a ministerial act could remove a citizen's access to the courts.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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.
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