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Now, if this bill does not “deride” all guaranties for the protection of human liberty, it is only because my word of reprobation is too weak.
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Mann asserts that the bill undermines protections for human liberty, calling it a derision of justice.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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