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Would to God that the very opposite of this were not true of our own!
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Mann expresses a wish that the opposite of his statement about slavery's acceptance in America were true.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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