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This claim, then, is not made for the purpose of making freemen more free, but for making slaves more enslaved.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “This claim, then, is not made for the purpose of making freemen more free, but for making slaves more enslaved.”
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Mann critiques the claim that rights for territorial inhabitants are intended to benefit freedom, arguing they serve to enslave others.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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