Horace Mann: “And we now have this stubborn fact to show for the soundness of that opinion,--the event has ratified it.”

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.

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.

The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.

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