Yet, though it is expressly declared that Congress cannot vest any part of the judicial power of the United States in a state court, the state courts are empowered by this law to take and certify evidence, which is made “conclusive” in the case.
Mann points out the contradiction of empowering state courts to certify evidence in light of Supreme Court rulings.
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They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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