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Did the resistance of the revolutionary patriots to the government of Great Britain start with a majority on its side?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Did the resistance of the revolutionary patriots to the government of Great Britain start with a majority on its side?”
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Mann draws a parallel between revolutionary patriots and abolitionists, emphasizing the minority status of both at the start.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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