We have drunk it in with our mothers’ milk; we have imbibed it from all the lessons of the school-room and the teachings of the sanctuary; we have inspired it with the atmosphere we breathe, and our organs have been attuned to it from our birth, by the anthems of the mountain’s wind and the ocean’s roar.
Mann illustrates how the value of liberty is woven into the very fabric of Massachusetts' culture and upbringing.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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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