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What interest of the country, then, has been faithfully cared for or secured?
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Mann questions the government's commitment to the interests of the country amidst the slavery debate.
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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.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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