But what must satisfy every man whose blindness is not of the soul rather than of the senses, is the fact that the people of New Mexico, in the constitution which they have just framed, have embodied a prohibition of slavery in their fundamental law.
Mann asserts that the new constitution of New Mexico explicitly prohibits slavery, reflecting a significant legal stance.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
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