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But the real issue on this point is, (and the senator must know it,) whether the victims of slavery shall be indefinitely multiplied by the addition to its domain of regions now free.
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Mann highlights the critical issue of whether slavery will expand and increase its victims through new territories.
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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.
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.
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.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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