Now I wish to ask the manufacturers and commercial men of the north, whether, if they had seen,--as it was seen by every unbiased man at the seat of government,--that upholding the compromise would put down protection, they would have consented to the compromise?
Mann questions the willingness of northern manufacturers to compromise if they had understood the consequences.
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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.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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