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By this law, every case of an escaping slave is but the self-recovery of stolen goods.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “By this law, every case of an escaping slave is but the self-recovery of stolen goods.”
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This quote frames the act of escaping slavery as a rightful reclaiming of stolen property.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
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