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After what I have said above in favor of liberty for all mankind, it would be a strange contradiction did I consent to be myself a slave of party.
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Mann asserts that supporting liberty for all contradicts the idea of being bound to a political party.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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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