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And, my friends, the keenest pang in the grief of all this is, that there is no fiction or romance about it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “And, my friends, the keenest pang in the grief of all this is, that there is no fiction or romance about it.”
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Mann reflects on the painful reality of slavery, asserting its authenticity rather than romanticizing it.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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!
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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