Horace Mann: “The latter suffered in his gains, but the former in his bread.”

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.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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

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