On the record
Having read their last address and resolutions, I must now say, that if they desire any more votes of mine, they must revive my faith by some new evidence of their good works.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann expresses his need for renewed trust in political parties to earn his support.
Share
More from Horace Mann
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be…
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Other voices in this conversation
