MY DEAR SIR, I am glad to hear from you. I did not know but you would
give me over to "hardness of heart and to a reprobate mind" after my
votes for Speaker. But I am as well satisfied as I can be of any thing that it
was the best course. If we must have one of two men for Speaker, you do nothing
towards deterring me from supporting one of them, on the ground that he is a
bad man, so long as I can prove the other to be a worse one. I have found that
those who hold to the doctrine, that they will not take the least of two evils,
forget that, by adding their own course to the number of evils, they make three
of them, and then generally take the worst two of the three. I prefer the least
one of two to the worst two of three. . . .
H. MANN.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 296
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