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The real question is, who is to be delivered up, a slave or a freeman?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The real question is, who is to be delivered up, a slave or a freeman?”
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Mann raises a fundamental question about the identity of individuals being claimed as slaves versus those who are free.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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.
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.
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