The presumption in every free state being, that all men within its borders are free, let every such state give the trial by jury, in all cases in which personal liberty is involved, to every one who shall ask for it, and who has not once had it in a litigation with the same party, on the same subject-matter.
Mann calls for every free state to guarantee jury trials to all individuals involved in cases affecting personal liberty.
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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.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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