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In this country, I still trust that we shall redeem something of the past, and secure the future.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “In this country, I still trust that we shall redeem something of the past, and secure the future.”
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He maintains hope that the United States can learn from its past and secure a better future.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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