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On its very face, the constitution meets this pretension with a denial.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “On its very face, the constitution meets this pretension with a denial.”
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Mann argues that the Constitution explicitly denies the notion that it supports slavery as a compact between states.
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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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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.
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