I only desire to awaken your attention to the great duty of extending the domain of conscience over politics; of holding public men answerable for those vices which it is a great misnomer to call private when they are committed in the face of the world.
Mann calls for a moral awakening in politics, urging accountability for public figures' actions.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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