And if slavery could only be kept out of the territories while they remained territories, it would, of course, be prohibited by the state itself, when the condition of territorial pupilage should be succeeded by that of state independence.
Mann discusses the inevitability of slavery being prohibited once territories achieve statehood.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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