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Nor did they refuse to add the word “wrongfully”
because they would not add it in other cases; but they did not think that it was possible for
slaves to take arms and collect a band rightfully. Nor did they refuse because they thought,
that if this addition were made, it would be possible to persuade such men as these judges
that it had not been wrongfully done, but because they would not appear to put a shield in the
hands of those men in a court of justice, whom they had summoned before the court for talking
those arms which they did take.
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