But how clearly is it seen to be a violation of its own laws, for slavery to produce a genuine scholar, or a man who, in any department of excellence, unless it be in politics, is not a full century behind his time?
Mann asserts that slavery cannot produce genuine scholars or individuals of excellence.
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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?
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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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