Horace Mann: “And what is it that this long-honored eulogist of liberty, but now its great apostate, blasphemes with the name of…”

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…

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

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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.