But release us from our obligations, tear off from the bond with your own hands the signatures which bind our consciences and repress our feelings, destroy those compensations which the world and which posterity would derive from a continuance of this Union, and well may you tremble for the result.
Mann warns of the dire consequences of dissolving the Union, arguing that it would lead to moral and social chaos.
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What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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