Slavery, therefore, though claiming to be a kind of property, is the bane of property; and the more slaves there are found in the inventory of a nation’s wealth, the less in value will the aggregate of that inventory be.
Mann asserts that slavery undermines the value of property in a nation.
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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.
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.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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