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As if we could command others to do what we have no right to do ourselves, and prohibit others from doing what lies beyond our own jurisdiction!
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Mann critiques the hypocrisy of commanding others to act beyond one's own rights.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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