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Did oppression ever before conceive such a tribunal, so countless in numbers, so ample in jurisdiction, so terrible in power?
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Mann questions the legitimacy and power of a tribunal that enforces oppressive laws.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
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