But the slave power then had possession of all the departments of the national government, and under the auspices of a slaveholding President, a breach was made in the walls of the constitution wide enough to let in a foreign government, with all its burden of slavery on its back.
Mann argues that the slave power infiltrated the national government, undermining the Constitution.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
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