Horace Mann: “Now, I ask, if this gift of a slave state is a trifle to be thrown in…”

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Now, I ask, if this gift of a slave state is a trifle to be thrown in like the value of a small coin in the settlement of an account?

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann questions the significance of granting additional slave states in the context of broader issues.

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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

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Horace Mann: “Now, I ask, if this gift of a slave state is a trifle to be thrown in like the value of a small coin in the settlement…”