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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.
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Mann criticizes an address that undermines the importance of the trial by jury as a fundamental liberty.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
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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