Horace Mann: “It was from the love of liberty that our earlier fathers plucked themselves up by the roots from that natal soil into…”

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

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…

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