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If they hear this, and are above the condition of brutes, they will apply it to themselves.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If they hear this, and are above the condition of brutes, they will apply it to themselves.”
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Mann asserts that if slaves are aware of their humanity, they will recognize their own condition and strive for freedom.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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