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In regard to this Fugitive Slave act, is it not astonishing that men should ever ask the question, Does the constitution demand the trial by jury? instead of the question, Will the constitution allow it?
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Mann questions the focus on constitutional requirements for jury trials in the context of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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