Horace Mann: “We of the Northern States feel it at home; we are made to feel it…”

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We of the Northern States feel it at home; we are made to feel it still more deeply abroad.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann expresses the emotional impact of slavery on the Northern states and their citizens.

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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.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

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Horace Mann: “We of the Northern States feel it at home; we are made to feel it still more deeply abroad.”