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Notwithstanding the commissioner’s decision makes us all slaves, yet I maintain that, in the eye of the law, we are all free.
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Mann asserts that despite oppressive laws, individuals maintain their freedom until legally proven otherwise.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
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