The object for which the constitution was framed, as set forth in its preamble,--namely, to “establish justice,” “promote the general welfare,” and “secure the blessings of liberty,” to the people,--could never be accomplished without the trial by jury.
Mann states that the Constitution's goals cannot be achieved without the right to a jury trial.
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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.
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.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
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