It is only necessary to travel over the sterile mountains of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire, to learn the true secret of our difficulties,”-- “to learn the difference between indolence and industry, extravagance and economy.
Mann emphasizes the importance of hard work and economic prudence in overcoming societal challenges.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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