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Mark the progress in the public sentiment of Christendom, within the last few centuries, on the subject of slavery and the rights of man.
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Mann notes the significant evolution of public sentiment regarding slavery and human rights over the centuries.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
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