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Alas, they will have to read that Declaration, as the devil reads Scripture, backwards!
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Mann critiques the South's interpretation of the Declaration of Independence, suggesting a twisted understanding.
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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.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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