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Alas, they will have to read that Declaration, as the devil reads Scripture, backwards!
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Alas, they will have to read that Declaration, as the devil reads Scripture, backwards!”
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Mann critiques the South's interpretation of the Declaration of Independence, suggesting a twisted understanding.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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