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Have we got any thing but disgrace in the eyes of the civilized world?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Have we got any thing but disgrace in the eyes of the civilized world?”
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He questions the national reputation in light of the slavery issue, emphasizing the need for moral integrity.
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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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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