Horace Mann: “For the correctness of the first of these propositions, I appeal to every man who has a conscience, or even any…”

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

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

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 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.