I saw, then, as I had never seen before, what a vital and inextinguishable interest every human being has in this subject;--not the slaves alone, but the free men; not voters only, but all who can be affected by votes; not men only, but especially women.
Mann highlights the universal impact of slavery, stressing that it affects all members of society, not just the enslaved.
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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.
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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