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And if the schools in the slave states are compared with the schools in the free states, the deficiency in quality will be found as great as the deficiency in number.
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Mann asserts that the quality of education in slave states is significantly inferior to that in free states.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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