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Surely its abandonment here would be a small thing to them, while its continuance is a great thing to us.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Surely its abandonment here would be a small thing to them, while its continuance is a great thing to us.”
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Mann argues that ending slavery would benefit the south minimally while greatly alleviating suffering in the north.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
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