What is sometimes called “the legal mind” of Massachusetts, my own honored State, bent before the technical reasoning which justified the unutterable atrocities of the Fugitive Slave Bill, while the Supreme Court of the State adopted the crime from the bench.
Sumner criticizes the legal reasoning that justified the Fugitive Slave Bill, highlighting moral failures in the legal system.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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