When, in evil days, further encroachments are meditated against human rights, these old measures will be cited as a sanction for new aggressions; and, in my view, they will always be found broad enough, and bad enough, to cover almost any nameable assault upon human liberty.
Mann warns that past legislative measures could justify future violations of human rights.
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Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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