In a case which has excited so much attention, both here and throughout the country, you, too, must expect to be put on trial; your verdict will go into the great record of history, to be passed upon by your country and by posterity.
Mann reminds the jury that their decision will be scrutinized by history and future generations.
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What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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.
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