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If so, then the existence of slavery in this District is not “necessary” to the exercise of any of the expressly granted powers.
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Mann asserts that slavery is not necessary for the exercise of governmental powers.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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