Horace Mann: “The law of nature recedes before this legalized violence; but it recedes no farther than the legalized violence drives…”

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

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…

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

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.