Horace Mann: “Is not this making merchandise of the Savior?”

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

My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.

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

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