Standing here, then, before you, my constituents, to give account of my stewardship, I have to say, that with voice and vote, by expostulation and by remonstrance, by all means in my power, I have, to the full extent of my ability, resisted the passage of all these laws.
Mann explains his moral obligation to resist unjust laws as a representative.
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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.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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