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For another reason slavery is an unspeakable wrong.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “For another reason slavery is an unspeakable wrong.”
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Mann asserts that slavery is fundamentally wrong for multiple reasons, emphasizing its moral implications.
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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.
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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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