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She was the first government in the civilized world,--in the whole world, ancient or modern,--to abolish slavery, wherever she had power to do so.
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Mann proudly notes that Massachusetts was the first government to abolish slavery, marking a significant historical achievement.
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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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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