Horace Mann: “Laws, judicial decisions, the writing of political economists,--all treat the slave as a thing to make money with.”

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.

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

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

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.