A Letter to the Hon Samuel a Eliot Representative in Congress From the City O
A Letter to the Hon Samuel a Eliot Representative in Congress From the City O
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Should he summon a host of wit- nesses to prove his freedom, not one could be heard ; should he olTer a bill of sale from the claimant to another, it could not be received ; should he produce a deed of manumission, acknowledged and certified in a Southern court, it would be waste paper. And thus a man's free- dom is to be sacrificed on an affidavit made a thousand miles off. What, Sir, would you think of a law that would authorize the seizure and sale of your property to satisfy a debt which an...y man in California might thiidc projier to swear, before a Californian judge, was due from yon to him ?
Such, Sir, is the trial which you, the representative of Boston, a descendant of the Pilgrims, and "a gentleman of property and standing, " have accorded to the poor and oppressed. Did the Constitution require such a prostitu- tion of justice, such an outrage of humanity, at your hands? I need not be told that some of your commissioners have not construed your law as strictly as did the Detroit func- tionary.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Should he summon a host of wit- nesses to prove his freedom, not one could be heard ; should he olTer a bill of sale from the claimant to another, it could not be received ; should he produce a deed of manumission, acknowledged and certified in a Southern court, it would be waste paper. And thus a man's free- dom is to be sacrificed on an affidavit made a thousand miles off. What, Sir, would you think of a law that would authorize the seizure and sale of your property to satisfy a debt which an...y man in California might thiidc projier to swear, before a Californian judge, was due from yon to him ?
Such, Sir, is the trial which you, the representative of Boston, a descendant of the Pilgrims, and "a gentleman of property and standing, " have accorded to the poor and oppressed. Did the Constitution require such a prostitu- tion of justice, such an outrage of humanity, at your hands? I need not be told that some of your commissioners have not construed your law as strictly as did the Detroit func- tionary.
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