But if these men be citizen soldiers fighting for their country, and it is proposed to cheat them of their votes by barefaced fraud, I know no language to depict the despicable and most intolerable enormity of the offence.
He denounces the act of cheating soldiers out of their votes as a despicable offense.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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