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If not lost, nothing can save it but a vigor and an energy on the part of the north, such as they have not lately put forth.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If not lost, nothing can save it but a vigor and an energy on the part of the north, such as they have not lately put…”
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Mann calls for renewed vigor and energy from the North to save the situation regarding slavery.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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