Horace Mann: “But UNTIL, mark this, =UNTIL= a man has been proved to be a slave by…”

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But UNTIL, mark this, =UNTIL= a man has been proved to be a slave by freeman’s proof, he remains legally free.

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Mann highlights the importance of legal proof in determining one's status as a slave, asserting that until proven, one is free.

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

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

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.

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Horace Mann: “But UNTIL, mark this, =UNTIL= a man has been proved to be a slave by freeman’s proof, he remains legally free.”