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It was from the love of liberty that our earlier fathers plucked themselves up by the roots from that natal soil into which they had been fastening for centuries.
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Mann reflects on the historical struggle for liberty and the sacrifices made by earlier generations.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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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