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Such unthrifty sentiments are the natural consequence of introducing slaves among the families of a country, especially negro slaves.
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Mann argues that the introduction of slavery leads to detrimental attitudes towards labor among white families.
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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.
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.
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.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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