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Webster have claimed the four states for freedom, with as sound logic and with far better humanity than he surrendered them all to slavery?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Webster have claimed the four states for freedom, with as sound logic and with far better humanity than he surrendered…”
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Mann argues that Webster's logic in supporting slavery is flawed and inhumane.
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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.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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