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As God is my judge, I cannot, I will not be moved from the purpose I have now announced.
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Mann invokes a moral conviction in his refusal to be swayed from his anti-slavery stance.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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