On the record
I trust that no pictures and no realities will ever induce us to extend slavery beyond its present limits.
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Mann expresses his hope that the realities of slavery will not lead to its expansion, advocating for its limitation.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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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