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But slavery makes the general education of the whites impossible.
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This quote highlights the detrimental effect of slavery on the education of white individuals, suggesting that it hinders societal progress.
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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 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.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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