Here, on the threshold, we are confronted with the claim that the gates shall be thrown wide open to the admission of slavery into the broad western world; because, otherwise, the southern or slave states would be debarred from enjoying their share of the common property of the Union.
Mann discusses the implications of allowing slavery into western territories and its impact on southern states.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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