Horace Mann: “Those arguments have lost nothing of their weight by this enforced…”

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Those arguments have lost nothing of their weight by this enforced delay, and I have lost nothing of my right to present them.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann believes that the delay in presenting his arguments has not diminished their importance.

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

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

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: “Those arguments have lost nothing of their weight by this enforced delay, and I have lost nothing of my right to present…”