But I feel, on the other hand, that my constituents, having intrusted to me some of their most precious interests, are entitled to know my “views and opinions” respecting the hopes and the dangers that encompass them.
Mann emphasizes the importance of transparency and accountability to his constituents regarding his views on critical issues.
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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.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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