Whatever may be the peculiar madness of the hour, in whatever direction the gauds of wealth may beckon, or the prizes of ambition call, let the Young Man remember, that only can be honorable which is just, that only can be safe which is right.
Mann advises young men to prioritize justice and righteousness over ambition.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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.
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.
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.
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