I only desire to awaken your attention to the great duty of extending the domain of conscience over politics; of holding public men answerable for those vices which it is a great misnomer to call private when they are committed in the face of the world.
Mann calls for a moral awakening in politics, urging accountability for public figures' actions.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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