Horace Mann: “Gold is a great pacificator between nations; and, in this money-loving age, mutual interests will, in the end, subdue…”

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

My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.

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

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…