Horace Mann: “Take no bribe from the hand of power, in whatever disguise of beauty it may come, but spurn it and its author alike.”

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.

My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.

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