But, sir, let me say this for Massachusetts, that whatever sins she may have committed in former times,--whatever dissenters she may have persecuted, or witches she may have hanged, or Africans she may have stolen and sold,--she has long since abandoned these offences, and is bringing forth fruits meet for repentance.
Mann defends Massachusetts by stating that it has abandoned its past sins and is now striving for betterment.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
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