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If the constitution requires me to do any thing which my sense of duty forbids, I shall save my conscience by resigning my office.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If the constitution requires me to do any thing which my sense of duty forbids, I shall save my conscience by resigning…”
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Mann asserts that he would resign rather than act against his conscience, even if required by the constitution.
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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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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