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No, this is nothing but a clumsy trick of the politicians; and if any one of them could be nominated for the presidency, we should hear nothing more from him about any deluge which threatens to submerge the Union.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “No, this is nothing but a clumsy trick of the politicians; and if any one of them could be nominated for the presidency…”
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Mann criticizes politicians for using fear tactics regarding the Union's stability for their own gain.
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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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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