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Webster may pitch somersets with his own doctrines, but he has no right to pitch them with mine.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Webster may pitch somersets with his own doctrines, but he has no right to pitch them with mine.”
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Mann defends his own doctrines against misrepresentation by Webster.
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These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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