Our present difficulties, which, as you well know, have arrested the gaze of the nation, and almost suspended the legislative functions of Congress, pertain to the destiny of freedom or of slavery, to which our new territories are to be devoted.
Mann discusses the national focus on the fate of freedom or slavery in relation to new territories, highlighting the urgency of the issue.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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