But the great political leaders of the south expected to make up both for their numerical weakness and for the injustice of their cause, by connecting the question of slavery extension with that of future presidential elections and with the strife of parties.
Mann critiques the political strategy of southern leaders in relation to slavery and presidential elections.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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