Throughout every nation in Europe, it is the common language and the common sentiment, that an institution which exists in one half of the states of this Union is in flagrant contrast and contradiction to the theory of our government.
Mann critiques the contradiction between slavery and the principles of American government as perceived in Europe.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be…
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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.
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