Horace Mann: “Now, if these declarations were a sincere and honest affirmation of…”

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Now, if these declarations were a sincere and honest affirmation of human rights, I should respect them and honor their authors.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann expresses respect for genuine affirmations of human rights, regardless of their source.

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

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

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

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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