New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-27

IL may again De said, that the osse OF Fus;
i've slave Is analogous to that OF fugitive fron
IaSticc who Ia delivered up without iury.ttisI
Inc only point of analogy is the mere fact thar
they are both tug1tipes. In all other respects .bs
cases are unlike. The fugitive from jastics il
charged WITH CRIME against the STATE from
which he has escaped The State, and not ny;.
yate individual, demands the surrender of hi.
body to ITS executive authority, that he NAV be
tred by Jury on an indictment found against
MN by Grand Jury. He is given up for the
purpose OF such trial, to be disposed of By due
process OF law The surrender is no conviction
no adjudication Of the case. Tho slave. ON ths
o'her hand IS not claimed as criminal be Il
LOU canned by the State he is claimed by AN
g%"sI-ohe TO whom he owes service or labor
The delivery OF the man claimed az n slsvs int
the hands OF the claimant, decides The yvsaIo
case 1t is In fact verdict Of slavery ne siost tbs
man. Hence the pepper time 70 try the ouestioo
OF lace by :" due process Of law" must no 49,.
the delivery. The man is not surrendered for
trial; the surrender is an actual verdict sgain.t
Inn. Hence Northern men owe it to Justice and
equally the safety OF colored men many of whom
are citizens to insist that due process Of Law"
as interpreted In the Federal and State Coustitu.
tons, should precede this surrender Let il not
be SAID that the question of freedom or slaverv
can be tried at the South, The North, we con.
clude are not prepared TO surrender up colorea
men, to be transported to the South, and therI
tried under the Prescriptions aud disadvantagel
OF the Slave code: This would be the crosses
injustice. It's equivalent to consigning them ID
slavery before the fact is legally ascertaned tina,
they are slaves At the South black skin prs
sumes slavery, and possession presumes title
Snail colored men without an impartial trial be
sent from the soil OF freedom to that of slavery To
be cursed and doomed with these prescriptions
We think not among people actuated by the
sense of Justice.
1t is the want OF these lust and equitable fes.
lures that made the Fugitive Slave Law of 1893
so odious to the Northern people, and is now
arousing the Indignation OF the free States against
that of 1850 Neither conforms to the idea of s.
due process OF law, as understood by immemo
rial usage or within the meaning of the Federal
Constitution or that of the respective States. To
drag man before Commissioners, and then dis
pose of the whole question in summary man.
ner, without the right Of trial by Jury without
the privilege of the writ of babcGS corpus, without
the opportunity of procuring council or rebuttiDg
evidence with no appeal from this Commissioner
Judge, is such an outrage upon all the forms Of
law and the principles of civil Justice, that nothing
but slavery could ever perpetrate it. Southern
men expect to catch runaway slaves in this way
they will not do a very successful business
They may find some sympathy with few whose
principles are IN the market to be bought up by
Southern trade; but the great body OF the North
do not understand the Constitution as authorizing
any such procedure. The provision itself is
heavy tax on the spirit Of freedom sufficiently
so not to be made worse by methods that out.
rage all the legal forms to which treemen are ac
customed HUMAN RICHrs