On the record
Every young man amongst us sets out in life determined to better his condition.
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Mann notes that young men are driven by the desire to improve their circumstances in life.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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