Horace Mann: “But it is wholly otherwise with regard to the institutions that prevail in this District; their honor, or their infamy…”

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…

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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

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.