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In the eye of the law, he is as innocent as the unborn child.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “In the eye of the law, he is as innocent as the unborn child.”
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Mann highlights the legal principle that an accused person is considered innocent until proven guilty.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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