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I make this statement of my views all the more readily, because I do not wish to receive an unintelligent vote from any man, and I therefore abjure all disguises and reserves.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I make this statement of my views all the more readily, because I do not wish to receive an unintelligent vote from any…”
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Mann expresses his desire for transparency in his political stance to avoid misleading voters.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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