But what renders the argument of General Cass still more extraordinary is the fact, that, according to his own doctrine, he has spent the greater part of his political life in violating the constitution, while constantly repeating his oath to support it.
Mann criticizes General Cass for violating the constitution while claiming to uphold it.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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.
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