Horace Mann: “He who would provide for the welfare of mankind, must first provide for their liberty.”

The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.

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.

Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.

So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.