Webster cajoled and cozened so many honest men, when he assured them, that though they should violate the moral law, by opening all the territories to slavery, yet some physical law of geography or the weather would avert the penalties.
Mann criticizes Webster for misleading people regarding the consequences of supporting slavery.
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The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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