Horace Mann: “Though opposed in its inception by the cities and the merchants, yet…”

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Though opposed in its inception by the cities and the merchants, yet it has promoted their prosperity not less than that of the people.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann argues that the protective policy, despite initial opposition, ultimately benefited both rural and urban prosperity.

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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

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

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 liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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