Horace Mann: “But what “seizure” can be more “unreasonable,” than one whose object…”

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But what “seizure” can be more “unreasonable,” than one whose object is, not an ultimate trial, but bondage forever, without trial?

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann argues that the most unreasonable seizure is one that leads to lifelong bondage without trial.

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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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Horace Mann: “But what “seizure” can be more “unreasonable,” than one whose object is, not an ultimate trial, but bondage forever…”