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At Lexington, at Concord, and on Bunker Hill, the grass still grows greener where the soil was fattened with the blood of our fathers.
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Mann commemorates the sacrifices made at key battles in the American Revolution.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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