Horace Mann: “Every intelligent and virtue-loving wife or mother, at the south, when she thinks of her husband and her sons, is forced…”

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

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

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?