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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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Mann argues that a ballot is meaningless unless it is free, emphasizing the importance of genuine electoral freedom.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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