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Show me one intelligent man in the whole country who has sold his stocks or his farm, or changed his residence, or altered his course of life in any respect, through fear that the Union was about to be dissolved.
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Mann critiques the lack of action among citizens regarding the stability of the Union.
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Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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