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Or, suppose, in pursuance of the “manifest destiny” principle, we should re-annex a part of China to this Union, could the Chinese, on removing to California, carry the practice of infanticide with them?
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Mann uses a provocative example to question whether practices like infanticide could be carried into new territories, drawing a parallel to slavery.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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