Horace Mann: “This was the first great surrender of principle on the part of the north, and a fatal surrender it was.”

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.

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.

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