Horace Mann: “If all our new territory be doomed to slavery, where can the non-slaveholders of the slaveholding states emigrate to?”

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

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.

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.