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But could you, therefore, on your oaths, convict a man of stealing a chronometer, when he had only taken a clock or a watch?
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Mann questions the validity of convicting someone for a more serious crime when only a lesser crime has been committed.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
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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