The resolutions themselves say, in express terms, that the new states are to be admitted “under the provisions of the federal constitution;” and the federal constitution says, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union.” By what Congress?
Mann questions the constitutional basis for admitting new states, emphasizing the role of Congress.
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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.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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