Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-26


Senatans VENT st pbIci conGhi particeps; notat
and deligoas ocuiis ad cedem nnumqnemqne mol
trum !'' :!
M. T. Gre. ~ L.s cafaixm CRATIC. 1!
To permit crimes Ito pass unnosiced is -
direliction Of political morality tits de- {
psrucrivs to Individual aad political securi-
~. Still more inexcnsable and criminal IS
il to cherish and promote, or to suffer the
promotion of The aagrans violators 81 So
cial duty and of public law. At Is essen
italy important to the regularity OF govern
ment and :sshe harmony OF social inter-
COURSE that the punishment OF crimes
should certaialy and speedily follow their
commission, impressed with this idea.
foreign and distant Nations sometimes IN
sert 70 rlseir mutual cosnpaers an article tor
the apprehension and delivery OF fugitive
criminals. An instance of this kind occurs
In the "treaty of amity, commerce aud
navigation between his Britannia majesty
and The United States of America" by
the twenty.sesenth article OF that treaty, 1t
Is stipulated !" that his majesty and the
United States, On mutual requisitlons, by
them respectively, OF by their respective
ministers or officers authorized TO make
the same, will deliver up ito Justlcef All
persons, who, being charged with "lnr s
or forgery, committed within the jarisulc'
,ien of either shall seek an assyium within
any oe the countries of the other. iho>'
this article has expired by the Limitations
of the treaty, yet il shews the important
point of view 10 which she contracting par.
ties considered the punishment OF the ll'-
tractors of their laws. This right OF Co
yerlng fugitive criminals from another
state. if. IL does exist, must arise, as we
before observed, fron stipulation. II TO-
reign and disconnected states consider 1t as
"a privilege of suGieiensimportance to maks
it a subject ofnegociafioa, We may reason
: bly, suppose that the several states OF our
union, closely united, as they are, by the
bonds of national connection, have secured
/. tovthemsclves similar privilege by their
national compact. In conformity with this
superstition, we find the second section Of
sha Eas.ssh e ferS6f
charged, IN any state, with treason, felo.
ny, or other crime, who shall Ace from
justice and be found 10 another state, shall
on demand OF the executive authority Of
the state from which he fed, be delivered
up TO be removed to the state having iuris.
diction of the crime His flight into ano-
thsr state Cannot, then, avail; for the Of
:icers OF Justice may still pursue and arrest
him. There'are, however, large tracts of
inhabited country, wlrhin the territorial
limits of the United States, which are not
yet erected and incorporated into dls,inc.
states. of the union. The clause of the
constitution above quoted is confned in.
Its operation TO states, and will not there
tore apply 70 these territories. Bur BY
law OF congress, of February the 18th,
1875, the same privilege of re1uisition and
the same duly of delivery is extended to
the territories north, wess, and south OF
the OHIO. s,.,s IS e5 s
Proyisionis thus made forthe re. delive-
~ and transportation Of criminals to the
propeF tribunal, and in these cases, it is
che duty of the executive authority of 81 the
state having jurisdiction of the crilne,'' to
pursue, recover and bring to iustice the
escaping criminal. For, from the import.
ancesofthe punishment of offenders, results
adaty TO the rulers OF svery state to use G.
very effort TO arrest the career of those
men. who have Wanronly trampled on the
laws ofnature aud their country. This ob-
legation rests. with double weight on the
seyerd states OF. our union. Il is duty
they owe themselves for their security, and
also 20 the Union, for the tranquility and
secGrity of that family of states of which
they form the component parts. Withthem
we find il is LET, 70 guard and defend the
property and lives of their own citizens
from violation. The state to which-crimi-
nails Zee cannot take cognizance of the.
crimes it cannot punish an offender for an
act committed beyond the iinnifs of ifs Ia,