Still worse is it, when this cotton, so diabolically impregnated, gets beneath the rich velvet seats and embossed cushions of the pulpit;--unless, indeed, a double measure of the spirit of the Lord shall descend upon the preacher and exorcise both him and it, of the evil spirit it contains.
Mann warns about the corrupting influence of cotton even infiltrating religious institutions.
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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.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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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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