Horace Mann: “It provides that if a commissioner will doom a man to bondage, his fee shall be twice as much as though he restores him…”

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.

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.

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

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.