Horace Mann: “Do you want your children to grow up inflamed by such examples of excess and wantonness?”

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

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

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

These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.