It is a monster to be hunted down by the public and the constituted authorities.

And such is the institution of Caste in the Common Schools of Boston, which now awaits a just condemnation from a just Court.

But this very repugnance has practical sanction among us, and you are to determine whether it shall be longer permitted.

Slavery, in one of its enormities, is now before you for judgment.

Let the blow fall which shall end its domination here in Massachusetts.

Where this prevails, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, Greek nor Barbarian, bond nor free, but all are alike.

From this we derive new and solemn assurance of the Equality of Men, as an ordinance of God.

Human bodies may be unequal in beauty or strength; these mortal cloaks of flesh may differ, as do these worldly garments; these intellectual faculties may vary, as do opportunities of action and advantages of position; but amid all…

Dives and Lazarus are equal in the sight of God: they must be equal in the sight of all human institutions.

The vaunted superiority of the white race imposes corresponding duties.

The faculties with which they are endowed, and the advantages they possess, must be exercised for the good of all.

If the colored people are ignorant, degraded, and unhappy, then should they be especial objects of care.

From the abundance of our possessions must we seek to remedy their lot.

And this Court, which is parent to all the unfortunate children of the Commonwealth, will show itself most truly parental, when it reaches down, and, with the strong arm of Law, elevates, encourages, and protects our colored…

Whoso knows how to use a library possesses the very keys of knowledge.

Next to knowing the law is knowing where to find it.

Mind meets mind, and each derives strength from the contact.

In the meridian of his fame as judge, he became a practical teacher of jurisprudence, and lent to the University the lustre of his name.

Through him the Dane Professorship has acquired a renown placing it on the same elevation with the Vinerian Professorship at Oxford, to which we are indebted for the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone.

I have never asked or desired an increase thereof, as I was receiving a suitable salary as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States,--while my colleagues have very properly received a much larger sum, and of late years more than…

His contributions have this additional peculiarity, that they were munificently afforded from daily earnings,--not after death, but during life; so that he became, as it were, the executor of his own will.

In justice to the dead, as an example to the living, and in conformity with established usage, the University should enroll his name among its founders, and in some fit manner inscribe it upon the school which he helped to rear.

Or the branch of the University devoted to law may be called Story Law School, as the other branch of the University devoted to science, in gratitude to a distinguished benefactor, is called Lawrence Scientific School.

Besides the general principles of the Law of Contracts, it comprehends the Law of Bailments, Agency, Partnership, Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, Shipping, and Insurance,--branches of inexpressible interest to lawyers, merchants…

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.