Horace Mann: “The Whigs were the true Free Soilers; they held Free Soilism as a hereditament, or as an heir-loom long possessed by the…”

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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

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.

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…