When we are reminded of this,--whether in a kindly and expostulatory manner by our friends, or in an offensive and taunting one by our enemies,--we of the north can say, at least, that we are not responsible for it.
Mann asserts that the North is not responsible for slavery, despite being reminded of it by both friends and foes.
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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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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