It was adopted, however, with the universal understanding that the healing influence of time would purge away the virus of the disease; and with no apprehension of the now undeniable fact, that the disease would be allowed to spread, like a gangrene, over the healthy parts.
Mann critiques the flawed expectations surrounding the adoption of the U.S. Constitution regarding slavery.
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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.
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.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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