Among the wiles of the sorceress that beguile the young to their ruin there is no more seductive, yet fallacious temptation, than the value which seems to belong to the passing hour, and to the pleasures it may bring.
Mann warns against the seductive nature of immediate pleasures that lead to ruin.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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