The most prominent member of the administration has been engaged in carrying out the policy of the south,--in visiting southern cities to pander to the slave power, and northern cities to stifle the spirit of freedom.
Mann criticizes the administration for its complicity with the slave power and its neglect of freedom.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
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