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Are rich men forever to use their “thirty pieces of silver,” or their “ten thousand pounds sterling,” or their hundreds of thousands of dollars, to reward the Judases for betraying their Savior?
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Mann critiques the wealthy for using their resources to betray moral principles.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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