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But the alleged fugitive from service is adjudged a slave, and made a slave by the certificate of the commissioner.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “But the alleged fugitive from service is adjudged a slave, and made a slave by the certificate of the commissioner.”
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Mann argues that the process of declaring someone a slave is immediate and unjust.
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The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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