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Because, by so doing, you enable them to abolish all rights for a whole class of human beings.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Because, by so doing, you enable them to abolish all rights for a whole class of human beings.”
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Mann warns that expanding rights for territorial settlers could lead to the abolition of rights for enslaved people.
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