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I trust that no pictures and no realities will ever induce us to extend slavery beyond its present limits.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I trust that no pictures and no realities will ever induce us to extend slavery beyond its present limits.”
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Mann expresses his hope that the realities of slavery will not lead to its expansion, advocating for its limitation.
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Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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!
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