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But still I say, that the man who can read this bill without having his blood boil in his veins, has a power of refrigeration that would cool the tropics.
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Mann passionately argues against a bill that he believes is morally reprehensible, using vivid imagery to convey his outrage.
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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.
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.
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.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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