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By this act, freedom secures a new domain on the eastern continent, while you are striving to give a new domain to bondage on the western.
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Mann contrasts the expansion of freedom in the east with the push for bondage in the west.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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