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Agriculture in the slave states may be characterized in general by two epithets, extensive, exhaustive,--which in all agricultural countries forebode two things, impoverishment, depopulation.
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Mann describes the negative long-term effects of agriculture in slave states.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
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