With New England habits of industry, and with that diversified labor which would be sure to spring from intelligence, the State of Virginia, which skirts us here on the south, would support all the population of the New England states, and fill them with abundance.
Mann envisions a prosperous Virginia that could sustain a population equal to that of New England through intelligent labor.
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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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