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Congress, therefore, is responsible for its institutions, as a man is responsible for the condition of his house, and the customs of his family.
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Mann draws a parallel between Congress's responsibility for slavery and a man's responsibility for his household.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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 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.
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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