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Surely they gain no credit, no character by it; we lose both credit and character.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Surely they gain no credit, no character by it; we lose both credit and character.”
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Mann argues that the South gains no credit from slavery while the North suffers reputational damage.
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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.
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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