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But this impulse which prompts to the destruction of another man’s property is vastly weaker than that which leads to its appropriation.
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Mann asserts that the impulse to destroy property is weaker than the impulse to acquire it.
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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.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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