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It gives us, too, that sign which is the perpetual distinction of barbarism, that it has no law of progress.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It gives us, too, that sign which is the perpetual distinction of barbarism, that it has no law of progress.”
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Mann argues that slavery lacks the ability to progress, marking it as a sign of barbarism.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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