Horace Mann: “A republican government supported by the two pillars of Slavery and Ignorance!”

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.

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.

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.