Horace Mann: “Who can wonder, if he is tormented in his nightly dreams by images of the man-stealer, in far off regions, plotting for…”

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.

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

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

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