This is just as certain as it is that the great crimes of the race committed in past ages,--the persecutions of the early Christians, the tortures of the Inquisition, or the atrocities of the African Slave trade,--are now condemned by the awful verdict of history and the ever-sounding reprobation of mankind.
Mann draws parallels between historical injustices and the current struggle against slavery.
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But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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