Sunday, May 28, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann to E. W. Clap, Undated

DEAR SIR,

Mr. Thompson has been to see me. Of course I was obliged to tell him there might be circumstances in which I would vote for a slaveholder. This, I suppose, has lost me a hundred votes; but I had better lose a hundred by honesty than gain one by dishonesty. . . . In great haste, very truly yours,

H. MANN.

SOURCE: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 284-5

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