Horace Mann: “Even admitting, then, that the law is equal for both north and south…”

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Even admitting, then, that the law is equal for both north and south, I will show that all the equity is on the side of the north.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann contends that even with equal laws, the North holds a moral advantage in the debate over slavery.

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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?

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

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

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