We open market-places here, at the centre of the nation, where, from seven hundred miles of coast, the sellers may come to sell, and where buyers may come to buy, and whence slaves are carried almost as far from their birthplace as Africa is from America.
Mann condemns the existence of slave markets in America, likening it to a horrific trade.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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