Horace Mann: “It produces a condition of ease which is not the reward of labor, and a state of degradation which is not the curse of…”

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

My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.

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.

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