Horace Mann: “Suppose Miss Dix to have had no “taste” for carrying solace and comfort and restoration to the insane.”

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.

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.

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.