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In the most clamorous days of anti-slavery, there never was half so much said and written against the institution as is now said and written for it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “In the most clamorous days of anti-slavery, there never was half so much said and written against the institution as is…”
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He observes that the pro-slavery rhetoric has become more prevalent than anti-slavery discourse.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
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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