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The plaintiff, thenceforth, may control his actions, his words, his food, his sleep.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The plaintiff, thenceforth, may control his actions, his words, his food, his sleep.”
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Mann describes the extent of control a plaintiff has over a defendant, emphasizing the dehumanizing effects of slavery.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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