Thus, when the law proposed, not to appropriate a man’s property, but merely to enable his creditors to receive it in payment of their debts, the jury trial was secured to him; but here, where the direct purpose is to strip a man of his liberty, and of his property in himself, the jury trial is denied.
Mann contrasts the legal protections for bankrupts with the lack of jury trials for those facing enslavement.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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