Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-23
WHOLE NO. SO.

resentatiOn, and our Ordinance of 1857, PX-
pressly guaranteeing, in so many wordc, the
surrender Of fugitive SiqreS, &c. &c. as well
the constitutional provision OH that point TO
which we now pass.
"No person, held 10 ~srrsicr or. labor in one
State, under the laws thereof, escaping into
another. shall, in consequence Of any law OF
regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor; but shall be delivered up
on claim Of the party 10 whom such service
or labor may be due."-Art. iv, Sec. 9.
Mr.. Spooner's argument on this clause is
the following Up. GO. &c.)
"'IIeld to service or labor is no legal de-
s~cription Of Slavery. Slavery has no ne~es-
sary reference to service or labor;' it is pro-
perty in man."
ID. "'Under the laws thereof There
were no constitutional or valid laws in the
States. relating to Slavery, at tho time the
Constitution was adopted"
Sd. "The clause must be construed, if
possible, as sanctioning nothing contrary to
natural right 1t may refer TO apprentices,
&c. hence, not being ''eNpresscd with ire
sistible clearness,' it is not necessary to APP
ply it to slaves, and being not necessary, it
is not allowable 10 do so.
This is his argument, lei us look at it,
In the first place, we deny that his rules
have any place here, since the Legislative in
tention of referring 10 slaves is E" expressed
with that irresistible clearness," which the
Court require. For it is a Fundamental rule
of Interpretation, that all statutes relating to
one subject are to be taken together, and any
; phrase in one is to be explained by referring
!, to the use OF the same phrase in the others.
Lord Mansfield says: Il. Burr, AID
"Where there are different statutes in pari
materia ION the same subiect) though made
4 at different times, or even expired, and moi
. referring to each other, they shall be taken
and construed together, as one system, and
;, explanatory of each other"
= This rule has been recocnized md ,c,oa
on bv every Con,t which eyis,s in Ills com.
trv oy in Enrl,nd Soc tho D;ae.,s
. Nov in I7e-. The came velr Thar Tho Con-
{ stitption was drafted. Cosrres, nassed the
Q Northwestern Ordinance. which sars.
I urL.. a. In. CI....S
~ "an 20 "e.tne o'a'ely noi Nnso
5 un,aiy Sei'l'uue' III s'iu .eII'oIy, o. ITO
-, Nv aI"agS ."a' b"S Pstson' esi'p.nE nv
.ne :dm0 .onn WON '"ool I"u Sei'tcel .
S,",n u,b'1 -, anS Vne ,nT o.nslna'
{ az u . ,usrnt' nay oe la".u"y ecia
5 ne nag SonssSou W ~ PeaSon e;sl,"s
: ~ .,
s Ihis refers to Slavery, for II says so. II
winch II proposed 10 exclude from this North
west lerriory' Dut when IL provides 10
inc surrender OF iugiuve Saves u oescIioe
g mem as persons rom "hoih "oo' ana ser
x rice IS Ia'yn"y ctaimea.
~" III 'ndt sh"he year, 100 'ne oons'.
,uuoh was urd''eI' We mign' expect siml
lar PROVISION ana we ma mat IN Pfovidlnt
LOT the SURRENDER OF cer'a'n persons IL oes
cfioes ,heln as persons heid 10 serfiee or IA
4 cor uhaer me mWS' 10 Dc delivered up OF
cam &C.
n me descriptions are eNac"y dl"e a"t
must refer 10 me same case Any Cour
woula hoio' ana De Jusliheu IN hoiulng' uh
der Mansheid's rule, That the meaning, IL
WIZ Inc surrender OF ir9ilVe slaves "a'
expressed win lrfeslS''hie c'earness'
we might stop hefe' as having made gu
our case, but we are wiling 10 meet Mr.
e SPoohef on MS own GROUND;
Inc supreme Ioultahu me na'ional large
~ interpret ms clause 10 refer 10 slaves ana V .
mean lhat no 0tate shaii shei'er' nut snail al
low mem 10 DC 'akeh oy inc national uo
vernHien', from is minus odck 70 slavery
Mr.. Spooner thinks ms contrary 10 nat,
ural right;' so DO we. but Is 'he world
agreed on TINS p"iht' Inc court must Ger
tally refer TO some stahuaru' Is lhe "oro
then agreed on this point an me absence 9
cypress fg,sfdf'on' the Eng'lsn ana frehci
- Courts and our own nave heid mat a slave
ought not to be returned 10 ms prison-nouSe
But the writers on jurisprudence maintair
that a law to return him. II made: us no en-
- croachment on the nights OF the iugluVe' 10
' no Stranger mas any Just CAIN 70 ''e P'o'ec
non OF a foreign cta'e against us Will am
each State has a night to determine who may
~ come 10 reside or seek sheiter witnih is lin
It's" Such was the opinion OF shaw, eVei
~ in his noble Judgment IN me Med Ease
- and OF Best, me d'sungulshed hhg''sn jugs
10 In an equally famous case IN me ahhais 9
a. Liberty =. d. q y. loo' MI: oPoohei nun
sen q JUS oiu Ts ',a u 60 ,Ia CO;