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For this her citizens deserve to be crowned,--not with laurel,--but with the solid gold of prosperity.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “For this her citizens deserve to be crowned,--not with laurel,--but with the solid gold of prosperity.”
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Mann believes the citizens of Wheeling deserve prosperity for their achievements.
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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!
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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