The most prominent member of the administration has been engaged in carrying out the policy of the south,--in visiting southern cities to pander to the slave power, and northern cities to stifle the spirit of freedom.
Mann criticizes the administration for its complicity with the slave power and its neglect of freedom.
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And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
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