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No state has greater conveniences for ship navigation and ship building than Virginia.
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Mann notes Virginia's advantages in shipping and shipbuilding.
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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.
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.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
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.
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