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It is a living monster, uncaged and turned loose amongst us, to rob and devour at its will.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is a living monster, uncaged and turned loose amongst us, to rob and devour at its will.”
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Mann describes the Fugitive Slave Law as a living threat that harms society.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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