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It is to make them labor for the right with a zeal commensurate with the infinite baseness of the appeal by which they are urged to abandon it.
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Mann believes that the baseness of certain appeals will inspire noble individuals to fight harder for what is right.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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