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It is the alleged slave who must be proved to be held to service before he can be constitutionally surrendered.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is the alleged slave who must be proved to be held to service before he can be constitutionally surrendered.”
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Mann asserts that the burden of proof lies with those claiming a person is a slave, not the accused.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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