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From year to year, it goes on conquering and to conquer, and human power cannot dethrone it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “From year to year, it goes on conquering and to conquer, and human power cannot dethrone it.”
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Mann describes the relentless expansion of slavery, likening it to a conquering force that cannot be stopped.
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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.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
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