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We know all this; we see its imbruting consequences; and we are compelled to see them, because the government will uphold slavery here.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “We know all this; we see its imbruting consequences; and we are compelled to see them, because the government will…”
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Mann asserts that the government perpetuates the harms of slavery, which are evident to all.
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