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The day for the power and the triumph of those whom you hate as abolitionists will have arrived.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The day for the power and the triumph of those whom you hate as abolitionists will have arrived.”
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Mann expresses a belief in the eventual success of the abolitionist movement against slavery.
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