Horace Mann: “In all places slaves hear something, but in this place they hear much, of what is said in behalf of human liberty and of…”

The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.

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

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

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.