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Especially does it behoove us to inquire, by what means, by whose instrumentality, the country has been instigated to this treason against the rights of men, and when we may expect their machinations will be brought to an end.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann calls for an examination of the forces instigating treason against human rights, emphasizing accountability.

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