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It furnishes endless temptations and facilities for committing wrong; it imposes no restraints; it warns by no threats of retribution.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It furnishes endless temptations and facilities for committing wrong; it imposes no restraints; it warns by no threats…”
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Mann critiques the moral implications of slavery, emphasizing its corrupting influence.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
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.
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