But again; seeing that Wheeling, as a seat for manufactures, is equal to Pittsburg, and inferior to no town in America, except Richmond; and that, moreover, she has almost no slaves; why is Wheeling so far behind Pittsburg, and comparatively so slow in her growth?
Mann compares Wheeling's manufacturing potential to Pittsburgh's and questions its slower growth.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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.
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