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The expression, “No person held in one state, escaping into another TERRITORY,” would be not merely ungrammatical and un-English, but nonsensical.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The expression, “No person held in one state, escaping into another TERRITORY,” would be not merely ungrammatical and…”
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Mann argues that a specific interpretation of the constitution regarding territories is nonsensical.
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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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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