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I protest against and impugn this method of proceeding, by any man, however high, against any man, however humble.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I protest against and impugn this method of proceeding, by any man, however high, against any man, however humble.”
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Mann asserts the principle that no one, regardless of status, should be punished without due process.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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