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But it is wholly otherwise with regard to the institutions that prevail in this District; their honor, or their infamy, attaches to us.
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Mann emphasizes the collective responsibility of the Northern states regarding the institution of slavery.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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