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The constitution of the United States, and the law of 1793, being at an end, the law of nature revives.
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Mann argues that natural law supersedes man-made law when the Constitution is deemed void.
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Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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