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Thousands and tens of thousands can escape, even while you are dining.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Thousands and tens of thousands can escape, even while you are dining.”
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Mann emphasizes the ease with which many enslaved individuals can escape, even in everyday situations.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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