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But on that ever-memorable day a senator of the United States, from Massachusetts, saw fit to trample under foot every thing that he had ever said in behalf of human freedom and against human bondage.
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Mann laments a senator's betrayal of the principles of freedom, highlighting the conflict between political actions and moral beliefs.
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