But if they now insist upon perpetrating against the whole western world, which happens at present to be under our control, the same wrongs which, in darker days, Great Britain perpetrated against them, they will forfeit every claim to sympathy.
Mann argues that if southern states impose slavery on new territories, they lose their right to sympathy due to their actions.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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