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It embraces all, from the slave to the President of the United States.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It embraces all, from the slave to the President of the United States.”
Editor's note · Context
Mann asserts that the definition of 'person' encompasses everyone, from the lowest social status to the highest office.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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