Horace Mann: “And now, look at the government which these slaves and descendants of…”

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And now, look at the government which these slaves and descendants of slaves have established, and contrast it with our own.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann invites a comparison between the government established by former slaves and the U.S. government, challenging its legitimacy.

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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

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