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And how, under our constitution, can the court know such facts as convert a presumptive freeman into a slave without a trial by jury?
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Mann questions how a court can determine someone's status as a slave without a jury trial under the constitution.
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Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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