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Within the jurisdictional limits of such states, then, slavery is made legal, though it is not made right.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Within the jurisdictional limits of such states, then, slavery is made legal, though it is not made right.”
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Mann asserts that while slavery is legal in certain states, it is not morally right.
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The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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