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But the ruin of small slaveholders is often accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Mann highlights the rapid financial ruin that can befall small slaveholders within their lifetime.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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