Horace Mann: “Slavery would abolish education, if it should invade a free state; education would abolish slavery, if it could invade a…”

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 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.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.