It seems to me, too, that the fourth amendment has an important “bearing upon the subject,” because it shows that the master-thought of our fathers, in forming the constitution, was to secure the liberties of the citizen.
Mann emphasizes the importance of the Fourth Amendment in safeguarding individual liberties as envisioned by the Constitution's framers.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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