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One’s blood must all be corrupted in his veins, before he can hear of it without indignation.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “One’s blood must all be corrupted in his veins, before he can hear of it without indignation.”
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Mann emphasizes the deep moral outrage that should accompany discussions of slavery.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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