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When invested with patronage, he never dismissed a man from office because he was a political opponent, and never appointed one to office merely because he was a political friend.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “When invested with patronage, he never dismissed a man from office because he was a political opponent, and never…”
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Mann commends a leader for their impartiality in office appointments, emphasizing integrity over political favoritism.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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