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Horace Mann: “What a tempest now beats upon Austria, from all points of the compass, because, during the last season, she attempted…”

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What a tempest now beats upon Austria, from all points of the compass, because, during the last season, she attempted only to half enslave the Hungarians,--because she attempted to do what, during the last century, she might have done without a remonstrance!
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann reflects on the political turmoil in Austria due to its oppressive actions towards Hungary.

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