Horace Mann: “Such prescription is at best but a species of lynch law against free speech.”

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.

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

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.

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