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I answer, there are two sides to this argument; nor was it wise in the slaveholder, or his northern friends, to suggest it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I answer, there are two sides to this argument; nor was it wise in the slaveholder, or his northern friends, to suggest…”
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Mann argues that the slaveholder's perspective is shortsighted and ignores the broader implications of liberty.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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.
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