To-day, in this boasted land of light and liberty, there are three million Caspar Hausers; and, as if this were not enough, it is proposed to multiply their number tenfold, and to fill up all the western world with these proofs of human avarice and guilt.
Mann draws a powerful parallel between the plight of Caspar Hauser and the millions of enslaved individuals in America.
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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.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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.
Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be…
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