Delay, not, then, we beseech you, to raise a barrier against this Stygian inundation, to stand at the Blue Ridge, and with sovereign energy say to this Black Sea of misery, “Hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther.
Mann calls for immediate action to prevent the spread of slavery, using vivid imagery.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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