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How much better for him had its powerful machinery never existed, than that he should be ground to powder beneath its wheels!
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “How much better for him had its powerful machinery never existed, than that he should be ground to powder beneath its…”
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Mann emphasizes the devastating impact of slavery on individuals, suggesting that its existence is more harmful than the suffering it causes.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
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.
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