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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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
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