I suppose that no jurist will contend that Congress could have passed the act of 1793, for the recapture of fugitive slaves, had it not been for the third clause in the second section of the fourth article of the constitution, which provides for the redelivery of a fugitive slave, on the claim of his master.
Mann discusses the constitutional basis for the act regarding fugitive slaves, emphasizing its reliance on a specific clause.
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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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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