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This was the first great surrender of principle on the part of the north, and a fatal surrender it was.
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Mann identifies a pivotal moment when the North compromised its principles in the fight against slavery.
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The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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?
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
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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