To no class of “creatures,” rational or irrational, human or divine, can it prove to be the “mother of peace and joy;” but wherever it extends, and as long as it exists, it will continue to be an overflowing Marah of bitterness and strife.
Mann asserts that no entity can find peace in a system that perpetuates strife and bitterness like slavery does.
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Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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