The government demanding a fugitive from justice seeks possession of him for a trial, before a court and jury, of the question of criminality; but the claimant of an alleged fugitive from service seeks possession of him to avoid a trial, before a court and jury, of the question of freedom.
Mann points out the differences in legal proceedings for fugitives from justice versus alleged slaves.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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