Once make it as clear as any law of physical nature, that slavery can never transgress the bounds of the new territories, and there is not a man so demented that he would any longer contend either for the proviso, or against it.
Mann asserts that if it were clear that slavery could not exist in new territories, the debate would cease.
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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.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
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