Not every man engaged in manufactures or in commerce has yielded to the seductions of this tempter.
Horace Mann: “Not every man engaged in manufactures or in commerce has yielded to the seductions of this tempter.”
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Horace Mann critiques the moral compromises made by individuals in commerce regarding slavery.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
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.





