Horace Mann: “They are instinct with the common desires of humanity, and among them one of the deepest and strongest is the love of…”

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 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.

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

These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.