On the record
I do not recollect the instance of a single northern man or northern press, utterly false to freedom, and venal as so many of them have been, that has expressed entire satisfaction with the law.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann criticizes northern individuals and media for their failure to fully oppose slavery, despite their flaws.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Other voices in this conversation
