Horace Mann: “When Texas and the south have got their slave states “to the number of…”

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When Texas and the south have got their slave states “to the number of four” into the Union, whence are we to obtain our one or more free states?

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann expresses concern over the imbalance of free and slave states in the Union.

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

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

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Horace Mann: “When Texas and the south have got their slave states “to the number of four” into the Union, whence are we to obtain our…”