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It has been said that the Press is the fourth estate in the realm; but I say Cotton is the fourth estate, for Cotton subdues the Press.
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Mann emphasizes the overwhelming influence of cotton over the press and public opinion.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
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.
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