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It is in the nineteenth century that we propose to reënact, and on an ampler scale, the same execrable villany,--a time when liberty is the rallying cry of all Christendom.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is in the nineteenth century that we propose to reënact, and on an ampler scale, the same execrable villany,--a time…”
Editor's note · Context
He warns against repeating the atrocities of the past in the context of the ongoing struggle for liberty.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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