The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-01

ne NloGplu bympdtny manifested AT the North
on the passage of this bill, which only renders
tardy justice to the South, reflects but little credit
on the indifference with which they have regarded
the statute for the extradton of free white men,
As early as 1892, law was passed to render ope-
ratve the clause in the Constitution which pro-
vides for the surrender of fugtives from justice or
from labor.
Whenever the executive authority of any State in the
Union, of either of the territories northwest south
Of the river Ohio, shall demand any person fugitive
or Territory to which such person shall have ed and shall
moFe9y9r produce the copy OF an INDICTMENT found, or
IehQIy charging the person so demanded with having
iIeue by the governor chief magistrate Of the State or
Territory from whence the person charged ned shall be
which such person shall have d to cause him or her 10
e arrested ana seenIed and notice OF he arrest to be given
aren't OF such authority appointed TO receive the fugitive
he shall appear But if no such agent shall appear within
* months from the time Of the arrest the prisoner may be
hendug, securing and transmitting such fugitive to he State
or territory making such demand, shall be paid by such
Any agent so appointed who shall receive the fugitive
70 the State Territory from which he she shall have fled
And if any person or persons shall, by force set liberty
or rescue the fugitive from such agent while rauspO
n or her as Aforesaid the person or persons SO tIendng
dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding one yeart
Act 18th February, 1893, Sec 1. + Ibid. sec >.
from their homes and carried hundreds of miles,
with irons on their limbs, and tried and convicted
or acquitted, as the evidence might be. No trial
by jury is allowed to the accused at his own home
or the place of his arrest. The writ of ha5eas
corpus only suffces for an examination into the
ormality of the papers The facts cannot be
inquired into, and the guilt or innocence of the
party is to be established in a distant tribunal
N IA year passes that individuals are not arrested
in New Orleans and given up to officers from other
States. Cases of singular hardship have come
under our own observation. New York creditors
are particularly eager to avail themselves of its
,tringent clauses. Let a New Orleans merchant
commit the offence of being under protest, and
forthwith, affidavit is made of his obtaining the
Goods under false pretences-a requistion is OBJ
tanned, and the unfortunate debtor is at once seized
and carried to New York. We have never heard
of any indignation meetings got up against this
convenient mode of arrestng a debtor. There is
infinitely more commsseraton felt for the slave
than for the white man. The provisions of the
two laws are substantially the same In practical
operation the white mans law is the severer, for
the courts have established a sort of comfy by
which men are arrested without the requistion,
and are detained in prison until the executive OF
the injured State can be notified and send on the
proper papers! If the fugitive slave law is not
fairly carried out the South will, without doubt,
refuse to execute the other. The recent factious
letter Of Josiah Quincy, of Boston, is in keeping
with his whole course. 1t is fortunate that this
hrebrand has tiickered on the granite hills of the
North, where there is material to feed its baeful
flame. In this region it would have consumed the
Union