Horace Mann: “Such a destroyer of knowledge dims the highest moral splendor of the…”

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Such a destroyer of knowledge dims the highest moral splendor of the universe.

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann argues that destroying knowledge undermines the moral fabric of the universe.

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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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.

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Horace Mann: “Such a destroyer of knowledge dims the highest moral splendor of the universe.”