Horace Mann: “The writers on moral or ethical science,--the expounders of the law of…”

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The writers on moral or ethical science,--the expounders of the law of nations and of God,--denounce slavery as an invasion of the rights of man.

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Mann highlights that moral philosophers and legal scholars universally denounce slavery as a violation of human rights.

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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?

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.

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Horace Mann: “The writers on moral or ethical science,--the expounders of the law of nations and of God,--denounce slavery as an…”