Political Quotes

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.

So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.

So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.

And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…