Horace Mann: “By this article in the constitution, the case of fugitive slaves only is provided for.”

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

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…

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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.