Horace Mann: “Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the…”

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…