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I never said any thing to give countenance or color to such a declaration.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I never said any thing to give countenance or color to such a declaration.”
Editor's note · Context
Mann denies having ever supported the idea that he would prefer disunion over the extension of slavery.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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