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It means that this Republic, as we call it, formed to establish freedom, should enlist in a crusade against freedom.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It means that this Republic, as we call it, formed to establish freedom, should enlist in a crusade against freedom.”
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Mann argues that the Republic, founded on principles of freedom, is paradoxically engaging in actions that undermine that freedom.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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