Horace Mann: “In no case known to the common law, or indeed to any other law, is a plaintiff invested with full rights, except after…”

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.

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

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

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…