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Not how much may we do for freedom, but how much can we do for slavery, has been the tacit assumption of the argument.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Not how much may we do for freedom, but how much can we do for slavery, has been the tacit assumption of the argument.”
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Mann points out the underlying assumption in the debate that favors slavery over freedom.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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