Horace Mann: “No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or chemic power turn thy sceptre into iron.”

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.

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

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.