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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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In this quote, Mann articulates his strong moral opposition to slavery as a violation of conscience.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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.
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