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Horace Mann: “As much as freedom is higher than tariff, so much stronger than their dissent should be ours.”

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As much as freedom is higher than tariff, so much stronger than their dissent should be ours.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann contrasts the value of freedom with economic tariffs, advocating for stronger dissent.

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