How different would have been the struggle for liberty to be secured by republicanism, if there had been no example of a stable republican government to which the patriot could point, for the encouragement of his people!
Mann reflects on the importance of examples of stable governments in inspiring the fight for liberty.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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