And if Congress cannot so much as restore a slave to a master, who has voluntarily carried him into a free state, how can it continue slavery in this District, after Maryland has ceded it to this government, whose fundamental, organic law gives it no power to create or continue slavery here?
Mann questions how Congress could maintain slavery in the District if it cannot restore a slave taken to a free state.
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