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Under the name of liberty, he enters a path that terminates in bondage.
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Mann warns that false notions of liberty can lead to actual bondage.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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