Horace Mann: “This idea of perpetual slavery in the very household of a republic of freemen is not to be tolerated, and cannot be…”

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

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

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

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.