But I have never known of a single case,--I believe there is no well-authenticated case on record,--where a northern man has instigated the slaves to rise in rebellion, and to retaliate upon their masters for the wrongs which they and their race have suffered.
Mann asserts that he has never encountered credible evidence of northern instigation of slave rebellions.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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