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In a national point of view, and looking at the subject as a statesman, the sentiment imputed to me is simply ridiculous.
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Mann finds the sentiment attributed to him regarding slavery to be absurd from a national perspective.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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