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This demonstrates that they thought slavery could exist there.
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Mann points out that the Mexican commissioners believed slavery could potentially exist in the territories.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
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.
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.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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