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They would lose nothing by surrendering it; we suffer every thing by its continuance.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “They would lose nothing by surrendering it; we suffer every thing by its continuance.”
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Mann asserts that the South would not suffer from the abolition of slavery, while the North would benefit immensely.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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