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Hence the war with Mexico, commenced and prosecuted to add slave territory and slave states to the southern section.
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Mann connects the war with Mexico to the expansion of slave territory, illustrating the political motivations behind the conflict.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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