Horace Mann: “The virtuous man cannot rely upon his government, nor the pious man upon his God, for earthly protection.”

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.

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

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.

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