On the record
And do those gentlemen who make these threats soberly consider how deeply they are pledging themselves and their constituents by them?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann questions whether those making threats truly understand the commitments they are making.
Share
More from Horace Mann
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Other voices in this conversation
