But to the argument, that the constitution and the law of 1850 apply only to slaves, and that because slaves are not parties to the constitution they are not under its protection, and so not included in the provision for jury trial, there is another answer perfectly fatal.
Mann argues against the interpretation that the Constitution does not protect slaves under the law.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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