Horace Mann: “Yes, fellow-citizens; for there is an attempt, and that attempt is to be followed up, to overwhelm the Free Soil party…”

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

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.

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…

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