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Sumner was not elected on any principle of availability, but on the principle of “Detur digniori,”--“Let it be given to the most worthy.” His lofty pedestal is too firm to be shaken by any such accusation.
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Mann emphasizes the integrity of Charles Sumner's character and principles in the face of accusations.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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