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Not every man engaged in manufactures or in commerce has yielded to the seductions of this tempter.
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Horace Mann critiques the moral compromises made by individuals in commerce regarding slavery.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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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