On the record
Because the life and character of so many of its apologists and supporters are themselves potent arguments against whatever they may advocate.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Because the life and character of so many of its apologists and supporters are themselves potent arguments against…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann suggests that the character of those who support the law serves as a strong argument against it.
Share
More from Horace Mann
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…
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.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
