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Precisely the arguments which were then used to seduce and corrupt the Democratic party into “acquiescence” are used by leading Whigs and Whig presses now for the same unhallowed purpose.
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Mann draws a parallel between past and present political arguments used to justify the expansion of slavery.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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.
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