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It is like that species of injustice where a man is compelled by a tax to support a religion which he disbelieves, and to pay a hierarchy whom his conscience compels him to denounce.
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Mann compares the injustice of slavery to being forced to support a religion one does not believe in.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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.
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