Horace Mann: “But can you destroy the right to a jury trial by changing the process?”

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.

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

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.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!