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The law is beneficent to them; it saves its terrors for the slave.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The law is beneficent to them; it saves its terrors for the slave.”
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Mann critiques the legal system's bias against slaves, highlighting its unjust nature.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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