Horace Mann: “The abhorred word “slave” is nowhere mentioned in it.”

Or, to enlarge the scope of the question: What must you think has caused Virginians in general to neglect their superlative advantages for manufacturing industry?--to disregard the evident suggestions of nature, pointing out to them this…

Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.

Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.

Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.