Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-16
RICTJNOND SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1911.
Ijro;nia and .lew Iork.


We shall publish in the course OF the next "een we
decided resolutions adopted by the House oil hepresen-
t1tives of New Hampshire, which the Republicans car
RED and the Wings opposed. The following article
from that staunch Republican print the " New Lamp
shire Patriot reduces their Whole argument INTO nut
she'll.
From the Ntu Hampshire Patriot Of January 81
uFroi1IvEs FROM JUsTIcE.-We publish this week
The able report and resolutions, 10 which we alluded
lost week of the Committee the Judiciary in regard
- the rght of State 10 demand and the duty OF the
STATE unon which the demand is made, TO surrender
;,;,es fron Justice. The report and resolutions were
nrenored by Mr. Baker, the chairman OF Inc committee
iThe questions in dispute between georgia ana
Maine. and Virginia and ~ York, are simply iuesuohs
f Tho construction Of the Constitution as TO the rights
ID to,t;ons of the respective parties, and derive al!
their difficulty from remote connection WIN o'heF
,b;nos rather than from any want OF planness IN ine
provisions of the Constitution OF the onheo STATS
These provide in terms too cxpct 10 DC e'aas", 'st
person charged with "treason, felony or other
crime shall on the demand made, be delivered iote
removed 10 the State, which the CRIME IS charged 10
have been committed, and which has jurisdiction OF Tie
same If the positions assumed by the Executive Of
" York and that of Maine can be sustained, theh me
Constitution in this respect and IN analogous cases.
roucbnp the intercourse between the States is per-
feet nuIlity The argument of the Governor OF New
York urged in justification OF his refusal 10 comply wilh
the demand ofVrgina, goes upon the ground that he
- IN udoe whether certain constitute crime, and
;nepts and purposes constitute HIM both court ana
nrv in the case He refuses 10 surrender because, as
he alleges, that which is charged as crime ~ virginia
is not SO by the laws Of New York But The law Of New
York. passed as late May, lc4O, recognizes si@re
,s property and consequently as the SUBJECT OIL THEFT
and can he be permitted TO say, in the teeth oil law q
his own State that stealing slave IN Virginia moi
crime9 The question, whether property can be r,snt'
fully holden in slave, is decided Tor the people OF the
North by the Constitution, 10 the extent OF our po-
cal relations with the South, and from this decision
there can be no appeal, long the Union lasts he
Constitution furnishes the measure OF the respective
rhts and obligations of the several States ana II DOES
seem that the Governor Of New York is most clearly IN
the wrong
ali IS not for any Staesto say, that those
acts which other States deem It necessary tor the pro-
lection of their citizens 10 make criminal are not cr
mnal because the laws OF the former do not declare
them
at is asked, must an innocent person be given mp
10 be carried into distant State for trial: II certainly
operates hard in the OF an innocent indvdua bu!
who is to Judge ofthe guilt or innocence: Is the Ex-
ecutiye hory of State TO arrogae to itself the
power to define what shall be crime i'll another State,
and 10 pass upon the fact of its commssionn effect,
TO assume the powers and duties of courts and uries
the State where the crime is alleged to have been per
petratcd, There is no hardship IN trying person "
those laws, which he has wfuy violated, and in the
State where the offence committed. We know
that it is strongly urged TO be unjust, that citizen oil
Maine should be carried to Georgia 10 be tried for what
is not an offence against the laws Of Marie, and
gumcnt founded on the supposlton that Georgia y
any other State might make light and trivial things
criminal by legislation and provide and cruel
punhme ns for the same In such is con,endcd,
that il would be nhuman TO deliver mp person Ia be
tried by such laws But is there any force in this
reasoning with reference to the controversies which
now unfortunately EXIST 1t must start with the ground,
that we are associated with barbarous, uneelng,
wage people, whose laws wicked, and whose
and ures are corrupt and regardless of right and jus
tice Then the fault lies with for forming such
compact with people ofthis character, and we should
not destroy the compact by piecemea but proclaim at
once a full dissolution ofthe Union"
Another Republican State has taken up the question
of Southern Rights. Resolutions Of decided charac-
ter were submitted the 9Th inst, 10 the Senate Of Ala
bama denouncng the late law of New York, which
tends the right OF trial by jury to fugitive slaves