ΑUG. 28.
The moneyed interest
of the South protects slavery; and the moneyed interest at the North,
especially in Massachusetts, or wherever cotton is manufactured, sympathizes
with that at the South. One wants slaves to produce the cotton: the other wants
many slaves to make cotton cheap. Hence they go together as far as they dare;
and our friend ——— said to somebody, he "didn't care a damn if there was
another slave State,"—so much has the love of money gangrened his generous
soul!
At last the cominus, or hand-to-hand fight, has
come. The Texas Boundary Bill is before us. A very good spirit seems to exist
this morning; that is, there is a great deal of joking and laughing going on
all over the house. Perhaps, however, it is on the principle that persons are prolific
of bon-mots when about to be hung.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 320
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