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Webster have claimed the four states for freedom, with as sound logic and with far better humanity than he surrendered them all to slavery?
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Mann argues that Webster's logic in supporting slavery is flawed and inhumane.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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.
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