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But if civil war once blazes forth, it is not given to mortal wisdom to extinguish or control it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “But if civil war once blazes forth, it is not given to mortal wisdom to extinguish or control it.”
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Mann cautions that once civil war begins, it becomes uncontrollable.
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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.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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