Horace Mann: “Now, gentlemen, I maintain that, at most, nothing but the offence of…”

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Now, gentlemen, I maintain that, at most, nothing but the offence of “transporting” has been proved against this prisoner.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann argues that only the specific offense of transporting a slave has been proven in the case he is discussing.

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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

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Horace Mann: “Now, gentlemen, I maintain that, at most, nothing but the offence of “transporting” has been proved against this…”