Horace Mann: “The commissioner is never to be paid by the government, but is wholly…”

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The commissioner is never to be paid by the government, but is wholly dependent for his fees upon the claimant whose case he tries.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann critiques the compensation structure of commissioners, highlighting their dependence on the parties involved in cases.

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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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.

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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Horace Mann: “The commissioner is never to be paid by the government, but is wholly dependent for his fees upon the claimant whose…”