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I say, sir, it is the population of African descent in the free states which is specially put in peril by this law.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I say, sir, it is the population of African descent in the free states which is specially put in peril by this law.”
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Mann emphasizes that the law endangers the African descent population in free states, highlighting its widespread impact.
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These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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