However clear the constitutional obligation of Congress to enact a law for the reclamation of fugitive slaves may be supposed by any one to be, there certainly are limitations to this obligation, which all the principles of our government forbid the law-maker to transcend.
Mann argues that while Congress has a constitutional duty regarding fugitive slaves, there are limits to this obligation.
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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 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.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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