The constitution does not say that freemen shall be tried in one way and slaves in another; but its language is, “all crimes,” and “all criminal prosecutions;” so that it embraces every person who is prosecuted, whether free or slave, citizen or foreigner, Jew or Gentile.
Mann asserts that the Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial for all individuals, regardless of their status.
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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.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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