Any other contract where specific performance is enforced is discharged by the payment of a sum of money. by the making of a deed of conveyance. or something of that kind. but holding a man to labor or service by law is repugnant to the genius of our institutions. whether it be holding him to the labor or service of a slave or any other form. In .the description of slavery in our Constitution by a euphemism they avoided the term "slave" or "slaveholding" or "slaveholder." and the Constitution speaks of it as a person held t6 labor or service. Now. when the immigrant comes over from a foreign country and gets to Hawaii. he is to a certain extent rather helpless if he has made an improvident contract. It is taking the body for the supreine court to say to a man. "You go and work for A B on his farm and stay theresix months." It seems to me that wherever we have the legislative power we should say that the right of a man to himself shall not be interfered with by law in consequence of any alleged or any actual contract. You may come upon him for damages. if you can. but you shall not take him by the ear and lead him out to a days work under the order of any court.
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