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Even should this hope fail, every body sees what an unnatural attitude of power and strength the cotton-producing states now occupy.
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Mann observes the unnatural power dynamics of cotton-producing states in relation to their size and influence.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
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.
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