Horace Mann: “Far graver consequences than the mere expenditure of money are involved.”

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.

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.