Horace Mann: “Is a whole race to be forever doomed to this outlawry?”

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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.

I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.

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