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• ‟ Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

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• ‟ Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

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• ‟ I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

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• ‟ But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

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• ‟ Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

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• ‟ Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

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