Horace Mann: “In South Carolina, the ownership of ten slaves constitutes a property…”

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In South Carolina, the ownership of ten slaves constitutes a property qualification for being a member of the legislature.

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Mann describes a property qualification for legislative membership in South Carolina based on slave ownership.

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Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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Horace Mann: “In South Carolina, the ownership of ten slaves constitutes a property qualification for being a member of the…”