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They would lose nothing by surrendering it; we suffer every thing by its continuance.
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Mann asserts that the South would not suffer from the abolition of slavery, while the North would benefit immensely.
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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 institution of slavery is against natural right.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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.
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