Horace Mann: “The politicians are just as ready now to betray their constituents as…”

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The politicians are just as ready now to betray their constituents as they ever have been.

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Mann warns that politicians are willing to betray their constituents for their own interests.

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

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?

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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Horace Mann: “The politicians are just as ready now to betray their constituents as they ever have been.”