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The tree of liberty will spring up every where, and nations shall recline in its shade.
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Mann envisions a future where liberty flourishes universally, providing comfort to nations.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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 wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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.
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