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Or, rather, they will never suffer institutions to exist which tolerate such unrighteousness.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Or, rather, they will never suffer institutions to exist which tolerate such unrighteousness.”
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Mann asserts that a society will not tolerate institutions that allow for moral injustices like slavery.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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