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As God is my judge, I cannot, I will not be moved from the purpose I have now announced.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “As God is my judge, I cannot, I will not be moved from the purpose I have now announced.”
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Mann invokes a moral conviction in his refusal to be swayed from his anti-slavery stance.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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