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I dismiss this point with a single proposition: In Massachusetts, we know no legal distinction founded on color.
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Horace Mann emphasizes the equality of all individuals under Massachusetts law, regardless of race.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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