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Would to Heaven that nothing more dear than pecuniary interests had been sacrificed by that measure.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Would to Heaven that nothing more dear than pecuniary interests had been sacrificed by that measure.”
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Mann expresses a wish that only financial interests had been sacrificed in the political struggle.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
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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