Horace Mann: “But they still retort upon us, and say, There is one spot for which…”

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But they still retort upon us, and say, There is one spot for which you are responsible,--the District of Columbia.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann addresses the accusation that the North is responsible for slavery in the District of Columbia.

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

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

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

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

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Horace Mann: “But they still retort upon us, and say, There is one spot for which you are responsible,--the District of Columbia.”