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Not one in five hundred of the freemen of the north could ever be induced to take his family and domicile himself in a territory where slavery exists.
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Mann reflects on the reluctance of northern freemen to settle in slave territories, highlighting the moral implications of slavery.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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.
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