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Do you believe that Daniel Webster himself could be returned if there was the least doubt upon the question?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Do you believe that Daniel Webster himself could be returned if there was the least doubt upon the question?”
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Mann raises doubts about the electability of Daniel Webster based on his stance on slavery.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
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?
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