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It is proposed to create a race of men, to whom all the lights of experience shall be extinguished; whose hundredth generation shall be as ignorant and as barbarous as its first.
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Mann expresses concern about creating a generation that is entirely ignorant and barbaric due to the denial of knowledge.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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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.
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