An article critical of Mann, who, it claims, has not given aid to the campaign for equal school rights for colored children.  He has not helped either in Nantucket or in Boston, to change practices which keep colored children from going to school with white children.   “All this exits in Boston. … Against it Horace Mann has yet to utter his first word.”

Almost two full pages are devoted to a speech by Mann to the House of Representatives in Committee of the Whole, June 30, 1848.   It argues for the duty to exclude slaveholding from the Territories of the United States.  It is introduced as “one of the most important documents of the day.”

An article challenges the justice of the case, commends the defense offered by Horace Mann, is critical of the Judge, and expresses hope that there might be a new trial.  The article then comments on the larger meaning of the trial.  “For it is the people of the United Sates, and not Captain Drayton, that is on trial here.  Here their shameful wickedness and shameless effrontery are pilloried, as it were, in the eyes of the world.  For these things are not done in some corner of a Slave State, and by some lynching Slave judge, but in the Capital of the Nation, on National soil, by National Courts, and in National Prisons!  May they help to make the American name infamous throughout the world, until the disgrace is wiped away be repentant amendment! …”

Here are several articles devoted to the memory of Horace Mann.

The article commends the work by Miss Emma Stebbins, indicates that much of the funds for it were collected from children, teachers, people in “the humbler walks of life.”  The address on the occasion was by the Chairman of the Committee, Samuel G. Howe.