Horace Mann: “But gentleman need not ask me for my vote to extend the institution of slavery one single inch beyond its present…”

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.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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…