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There are white men in this city hostile to the institution of slavery, and desiring the freedom of all slaves.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “There are white men in this city hostile to the institution of slavery, and desiring the freedom of all slaves.”
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Mann highlights the existence of individuals in Washington who oppose slavery and advocate for the freedom of enslaved people.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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