On the record
This surpasses the bribery of Judas by the high priests.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “This surpasses the bribery of Judas by the high priests.”
Editor's note · Context
Mann draws a powerful comparison between the financial motivations behind slavery and historical acts of betrayal.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
