Horace Mann: “Can the class of men who demand our allegiance to the Fugitive Slave law stand this test?”

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…

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

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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.