Horace Mann: “Polk’s administration, and all its southern friends, adhered to their original purpose of obtaining new territory for…”

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

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

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

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…