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Webster had always held, that slavery would invade the new territories if not barred out of them by positive law.
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Mann references Webster's consistent belief that slavery would encroach upon new territories unless legally restricted.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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