Is it not as palpable a case of alteration, as to change the date of a note of hand in order to take it out of the statute of limitations, or to obliterate the description of the premises in a deed, and put a more valuable estate in its place?
Mann draws a comparison between altering a legal document and misrepresenting someone's words.
Share
More from Horace Mann
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Other voices in this conversation
