Horace Mann: “Are we to submit a question of human liberty over vast regions and for an indefinite extent of time, to the…”

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…

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.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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