What have those now to say for themselves, who beguiled a portion of our people into the delusion, that they might safely barter human rights for pecuniary advantages, and have left to their dupes both the loss of the advantages, and the disgrace of abandoning their principles!
Mann condemns those who misled the public into sacrificing human rights for financial gain.
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The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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.
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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