Horace Mann: “Feeble and humble as I am, great and formidable as he is, I join issue with him on this momentous question, and put…”

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.

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…

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