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So the constitution of the United States creates no slaves, and can create none.
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Mann concludes that the U.S. Constitution does not and cannot create slaves.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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