Thus, in those days, a partisan of Slavery, while asserting its divine origin, and vindicating the rendition of fugitive slaves, recognized the claim of the master as “a suit at Common Law,” to be tried by a jury; and this he insisted was prescribed by the Constitution.
Sumner reflects on how even proponents of slavery acknowledged the legal right to a jury trial for claims regarding fugitive slaves, as mandated by the Constitution.
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