And who will be bold enough to say that a trial and judgment by him, delivering up the respondent to bondage, would not be the exercise of “judicial power” in a controversy between “a state and a citizen of another state”?
Mann questions the legitimacy of judicial power exercised under the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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