Horace Mann: “Do our laws and our institutions seek to blot out and abolish the image of God in the human soul?”

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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 liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.