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My words have been cool as the telegraphic wires, while my feelings have been like the lightning that runs through them.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “My words have been cool as the telegraphic wires, while my feelings have been like the lightning that runs through them.”
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Mann uses a metaphor to illustrate the contrast between his calm words and intense feelings about slavery.
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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 liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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