We, at the north, know too well the foundations of worldly prosperity and happiness; we know too well the sources of social and moral welfare, ever voluntarily to blend our fortunes with those of a community where slavery is tolerated.
Mann emphasizes the importance of social and moral welfare, rejecting any association with communities that tolerate slavery.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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