Horace Mann: “But if the alleged slave declares, here, in Massachusetts, that he owns himself, he is debarred from this right.”

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.

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

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.