France has declared that any one who shall voluntarily become the owner of a slave, or shall voluntarily continue to be the owner of a slave cast upon him by bequest or inheritance, shall cease to be a citizen of France.
Mann highlights France's strong stance against slavery, declaring it incompatible with citizenship.
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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.
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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