The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-02
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law for the same correspondent writes:
III is said that quite xnumber Of negroes have ~.
rested this morning as fugttyes, and many who hG
hitherto lived unmolesed leaving the city for C aaT
and other parts where they will be on, Of the reach
law"
But this is not the only case in which the law A..
operated. as appears from the following letter;
photographed Tor tho Ba,im0s SUM-
"0psratiow Of the Fugitive saaps LaD IN Pnas,isaw,
"HAHRIssURe, Pa, Sept 30. p m.--The fugitive 49,.
Who il viii be remembered arrested and s .s
in a in Harrisburg or some weeks past were 'Se ,ond
out This sileln and had heari' r. under The new ~
before X MeAllisiet, United States comm,ss oner ~"
proved his property whereupon the slaves were de,aa
up % their masief, wha 'nnr da'ey 30. possession and
slightest resistance
Here happy TO see that the law was carried o.,
without the slightest resistance mob Now, supOO
the Harrisburg papers ndiscreet as the New yo
Sun: could the same impunity have been expecsd,
These proceedings necessarily very summary in them
selves and the negro is entitled the bene6, AZ Il.
writ OF habeas corpus. The Philadelphia Ledger show
us how stringent and efficient is this measure Of the Con
promise, by the effects il has already produced:
'Its first effects have been produce considerable al
among the coored population IN this STATE near IN NY
ders OF the From Piusburg one nundred ~
iity coIored men, principally escaped slaves hav ,h ana
Their departure Tor Canada They all went wen a Aa
under leaders, aud prepared fight Il their passage w.
disputed The lazy Is terrb bsraed y the Pts6urg pa
penal offence TO be engaged IN the recapne slaves f
course such an act would have no force against law Of
Congress The return OF fugitive slaves is constitutional
obligation upon The free States and though they may enac
that the officers the SAFE shall lend lher assancs
those whom The United aes government sppojn, -
duty The law will probably win much oppos
ton from the enemies oil slavery
But our northern brethren, who the friends Of II,
! A.
Of the Importance as well the justice Of suppessn,
this feeling and carrying out The law The South have
demanded such law. II constitutes part Of one great
system Of compromise which is calculated restore The
peace Of the Union. Should that law be wantony VIC.
lated by mob law il will make the South much more d
contented than before il passed No one can iel
the excitement which may arise, the mschefs i, NAV
produce We sincerely hope that every case Of arrest
may 60 off as quietly those in New York and in Hal
rsburg and then the South may be able to save id
property, and the North will be rid Of the most trouble
some portion Of its population The Albany Argus justly
remarks upon the case in New York:
Here was palpabc illustration of the utter eficien
cy OF the former law carry the require
regard to the delivery OF fugitive slaves, and
less forcble exempt caton oil the adaptation of the
law to the object which the trainers of the constitution had
in view. Heretofore the constitutional njnnctons haze
in many OF the northern States, IN spite oil congressional
In aid of them been practically dead letter;
and this alone may be attributed much OF the bad
feeling between the North and South which exhibited IT,
self during the tendency Of the adjustment measures
happily passed. Under the whoesome Of the
law which guards the rights Of both and slave
scruppous fidelity the spirit and letter Of the
stitution, 1t is much expect that all feeling
this viii be alayed, far the Souh is concerned
A for the North, IT, in the p,tsburg stampede
the new shall have the effect OF Kidding section
the gves that have been hafbored and among
us, by their voluntary withdrawal the neighborng
province, it will be without reciprocal benefits here
also,n