Horace Mann: “But if I expatriate myself, I leave all that interest and proprietorship behind me.”

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.

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.

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