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Now, this can never be done in an agricultural community where there are two classes of men--one to do all the work, and the other to seize all the profits.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Now, this can never be done in an agricultural community where there are two classes of men--one to do all the work, and…”
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Mann critiques the economic structure of agricultural communities that rely on a division of labor between workers and profit-takers.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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