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In looking over the criminal codes of the slave states, I think I have noted cases where the slave is not punished with death for an offence for which a white man is.
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Mann observes disparities in the punishment of slaves compared to white individuals, pointing out systemic injustices.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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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