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It is not to be “hallowed,” as a year of jubilee, but to be profaned as a year of captivity and mourning.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is not to be “hallowed,” as a year of jubilee, but to be profaned as a year of captivity and mourning.”
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Mann expresses his view that the year of jubilee is being desecrated by the continuation of slavery.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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 liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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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