Horace Mann: “By these considerations the laws of England, in every case, give favor to liberty.”

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

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.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

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.