But, sir, let me say this for Massachusetts, that whatever sins she may have committed in former times,--whatever dissenters she may have persecuted, or witches she may have hanged, or Africans she may have stolen and sold,--she has long since abandoned these offences, and is bringing forth fruits meet for repentance.
Mann defends Massachusetts by stating that it has abandoned its past sins and is now striving for betterment.
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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.
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.
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.
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