Horace Mann: “And what is the object for which we are willing to make this awful…”

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And what is the object for which we are willing to make this awful sacrifice?

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann questions the justification for the sacrifices made in the context of slavery, urging reflection on their purpose.

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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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Horace Mann: “And what is the object for which we are willing to make this awful sacrifice?”