Horace Mann: “Yet this is precisely, and in totidem verbis, what the pro-slavery argument says to the respondent when he is brought…”

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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

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…