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While slaves exist in it, therefore, it can be charged upon the north that they uphold slavery.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “While slaves exist in it, therefore, it can be charged upon the north that they uphold slavery.”
Editor's note · Context
Mann argues that the existence of slavery in the District implicates the North in its continuation.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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