Horace Mann: “Think not of luxury, or wealth, or ignoble ease, but only of an heroic conflict, careless of the present strength of the…”

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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.