Could they have intended that the mere fact of claiming a man as a slave,--which claim might be made against a freeman as well as against a slave,--should be sufficient to deprive him of this ancient muniment of the subject’s liberty?
Mann questions the implications of claiming someone as a slave and its impact on personal liberty.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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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