And now the old objections are revived, and made to do service again, in order to defeat the effort for common schools,--being schools founded on the very principle of Equal Rights recognized in the elective franchise, in the court-room, and in the street-car.
This quote illustrates how old arguments against equality are being revived to oppose educational reforms based on equal rights.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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