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Is not this the case of Judas selling his Master over again, with the important exception of the remorse that made the original culprit go and hang himself?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann compares the act of selling slaves to Judas's betrayal of Christ, emphasizing the moral implications of such actions.

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