On the record
On the same ground on which Congress passes a law for escaped slaves, let every free state pass a law for resident freemen.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann advocates for free states to protect the rights of their residents similarly to how Congress protects escaped slaves.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
