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If Congress could not do this by express enactment, how can it do so by implication?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If Congress could not do this by express enactment, how can it do so by implication?”
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Mann questions the implications of congressional power in judicial matters, emphasizing constitutional limits.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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.
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.
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