On the record
Now, it is infinitely far from the purpose of the north to offer any indignity to the south by excluding slavery from the territories.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Now, it is infinitely far from the purpose of the north to offer any indignity to the south by excluding slavery from…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann emphasizes that the North does not intend to insult the South by excluding slavery from the territories.
Share
More from Horace Mann
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Other voices in this conversation
