Horace Mann: “As for that bugbear of a dissolution of the Union, I say, without fear of contradiction, that no practical man has ever…”

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.

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

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

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…