Horace Mann: “Does not this hold a man’s freedom to be of less value than twenty dollars?”

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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.

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