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What shall be thought of a system, AND OF EXTENDING A SYSTEM, which so perverts the hearts of men, otherwise clear-headed, high-minded, and generous!
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Mann expresses concern about the moral degradation caused by the system of slavery.
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Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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