Now, this principle applies with tenfold force to legislators,--withholding and repelling them from passing any law which may involve the innocent in the fate of the guilty, or the free in the bondage of the enslaved.
Mann asserts that legislators should not pass laws that unjustly affect innocent individuals, particularly in the context of slavery.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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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