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They discard the institution of slavery, while we cherish it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “They discard the institution of slavery, while we cherish it.”
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Mann critiques the acceptance of slavery in America compared to its rejection in other nations.
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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!
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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