Nor can any power to establish slavery be deduced from the 18th clause of the 8th section of the 1st article of the constitution, which gives Congress power “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution” the powers that are granted.
Mann argues that the constitutional clause cited cannot be interpreted as granting Congress the power to establish slavery.
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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.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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