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Were we frank and in earnest, or were we hollow and fraudulent?
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Mann questions the sincerity of people's intentions regarding their commitment to freedom and justice.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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