Horace Mann: “These slaves, therefore, had no place to flee to, where better institutions and juster laws prevailed.”

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.

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

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.