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It is remarkable, too, that of all the “agitators” in the country, there are none more violent than those who are agitating against agitation.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is remarkable, too, that of all the “agitators” in the country, there are none more violent than those who are…”
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Mann points out the irony of those who oppose agitation while being the most vocal against it.
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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.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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!
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