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Determined to keep a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
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Mann accuses the British king of deliberately maintaining the slave trade for profit.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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