And this is independent of the question whether Congress, by the constitution, has any more right to establish slavery any where than it has to establish an inquisition, create an order of nobility, or anoint a king.
Mann argues against the legitimacy of Congress establishing slavery, comparing it to other unjust institutions.
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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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