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The last is the republican’s question, volunteering all that he can grant.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The last is the republican’s question, volunteering all that he can grant.”
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Mann contrasts the tyrant's question with the republican's question, which seeks to grant more rights.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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