Will those who say that Congress cannot establish a banking institution by construction, nor aid internal improvements, nor enact a tariff,--will they say that Congress can make a man a slave, and all his posterity slaves, by construction?
Mann challenges the notion that Congress can impose slavery through interpretive constructions of its powers, contrasting it with other legislative powers.
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Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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”?
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
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