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Can the oppression that tramples out voluntary industry, enterprise, intelligence, and the desire of independence, conduce to riches?
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Mann challenges the idea that oppression can lead to wealth, emphasizing the detrimental effects of slavery on industry and independence.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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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