What are these so-called Union meetings in northern cities but an extensive apparatus of agitation,--a piece of machinery to manufacture and send abroad the very articles which its managers declare to be contraband?
Mann describes Union meetings as mechanisms that perpetuate the very issues they claim to oppose.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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