And though the lovers of human liberty have consisted of the greatest and best men who have ever lived, yet they have been overborne by violence, crushed and trampled upon by power, buried in dungeons, gibbeted on scaffolds, burnt at the stake!
Mann laments the historical violence faced by advocates of human liberty.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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