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It is but an appeal to the lower rule of action to justify a violation of the higher.
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Mann argues that justifying lower actions to violate higher principles is fundamentally flawed.
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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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
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.
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