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Which is of the greater importance, that the owner should recover his slave, or that the citizen should retain his freedom?
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Mann poses a rhetorical question about the importance of recovering a slave versus retaining a citizen's freedom.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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