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No lover of liberty can read them without having their atrocious character burned into his mind ineffaceably.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “No lover of liberty can read them without having their atrocious character burned into his mind ineffaceably.”
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Mann asserts that the inhuman nature of the Fugitive Slave Law is unforgettable for anyone who values liberty.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
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