Horace Mann: “With the images of wife and children before the eyes, martyrdom for…”

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With the images of wife and children before the eyes, martyrdom for their protection has been sweet.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann reflects on the deep emotional sacrifices made by individuals for their loved ones in the context of 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.

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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Horace Mann: “With the images of wife and children before the eyes, martyrdom for their protection has been sweet.”