Horace Mann: “Now what possible excuse can be offered for these misleading citations?”

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

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.

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

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.