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But you have special laws; local and peculiar laws,--laws contrary to the great principles of the common law, by which you call men and women property.
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Mann critiques laws that dehumanize individuals by treating them as property, highlighting the moral implications of such legislation.
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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.
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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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