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What a bridal gift for the harlot of bondage!
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Mann uses a striking metaphor to criticize the gift of a slave state as a disgraceful act.
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Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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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