Horace Mann: “It is a government whose powers consist of the grants that have been made to it; and nowhere, by no competent party, has…”

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.

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

I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.