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Hence he knows that Right and Truth will assuredly triumph, and that all who oppose them will be scattered as the whirlwind scatters the chaff.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann expresses confidence that truth will ultimately prevail.

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