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They affixed another stain upon the country, and set in deeper shade the contrast between the theory of our government and its practice.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “They affixed another stain upon the country, and set in deeper shade the contrast between the theory of our government…”
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Mann points out the hypocrisy between the ideals of government and its practices regarding slavery.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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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