On the record
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann urges West Virginians to act against the perpetuation of slavery for future generations.
Share
More from Horace Mann
But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…
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.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
