Horace Mann: “I take the Quaker ground upon this subject; I will not assist to…”

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I take the Quaker ground upon this subject; I will not assist to execute it, though I shall suffer it to execute itself on me.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann expresses his refusal to actively support a law he believes is unjust, aligning himself with Quaker principles.

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

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

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 take the Quaker ground upon this subject; I will not assist to execute it, though I shall suffer it to execute itself…”