Horace Mann: “Rather shall not Congress first supply the means of protection to the citizens of all?”

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.

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.

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

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