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Were he in the prime of life, its setting sun might go down in darkness and sorrow before the final verdict of acquittal could be pronounced in his favor.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Were he in the prime of life, its setting sun might go down in darkness and sorrow before the final verdict of acquittal…”
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Mann reflects on the potential despair faced by an innocent person awaiting a verdict in a lengthy trial.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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