Horace Mann: “I say, sir, the single State of Virginia could support in abundance…”

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I say, sir, the single State of Virginia could support in abundance the whole population of New England.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann boldly claims that Virginia has the resources to support the entire population of New England.

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

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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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Horace Mann: “I say, sir, the single State of Virginia could support in abundance the whole population of New England.”