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In the metropolis of their nation, their flag does not protect the slave traffic, nor wave over the slave mart.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “In the metropolis of their nation, their flag does not protect the slave traffic, nor wave over the slave mart.”
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Mann points out that the capital of a nation can uphold moral standards that protect human rights, unlike the U.S.
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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.
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.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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