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I answer, for the very reason that she stood first in her hostility to the encroachments of the British crown in 1776.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I answer, for the very reason that she stood first in her hostility to the encroachments of the British crown in 1776.”
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Mann draws a parallel between Massachusetts' historical resistance to British rule and its current stance against slavery.
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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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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