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The great and free republic of North America has transferred the unwritten law of Judge Lynch to its statute book.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The great and free republic of North America has transferred the unwritten law of Judge Lynch to its statute book.”
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Mann highlights the troubling transformation of American law, equating it with mob justice.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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 liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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