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Fellow-citizens, it has been asked why we are assembled here to-day, and not in the Hall consecrated to liberty.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Fellow-citizens, it has been asked why we are assembled here to-day, and not in the Hall consecrated to liberty.”
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Mann addresses the audience about the significance of their gathering in the context of liberty.
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