What are these so-called Union meetings in northern cities but an extensive apparatus of agitation,--a piece of machinery to manufacture and send abroad the very articles which its managers declare to be contraband?
Mann describes Union meetings as mechanisms that perpetuate the very issues they claim to oppose.
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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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.
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