Horace Mann: “A party of Freedom has existed in all ages of the world, but a mightier party of oppression has been arrayed against it.”

The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.

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

The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.