And, sir, I should be sure of a response; for out of those schools there is going forth a nobler band of young men and women than ever before conferred intelligence, virtue, refinement, and renown upon any people or community on the face of the globe.
Mann expresses confidence in the positive impact of schools on the character of young people.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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