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nestle interests and institutions that il cannot be doubted
that II constituted fundamental article without the
adoption OF which the Union could not have been
fomed"-tPngg Us. Commonwealth OF Pennsy yanis)
They know that the act Of 1893 intended
this right aud that the bad the right seize
his slave wherever he could find him; and that the
cent law only carries out the remedy OF reclamation
little further than the OF 1898, by adopting more
efficient system of officers to carry il into execution
And yet they affect. in grave meetings and solemn resou
tons, declare this law TO be unconstitutional, because
II denies the slave the right OF jury trial in the State
where he is spprehended, and also cuts him of from the
benefit OF the Aabsas corpus if they ddn know that if
either OF these privileges granted it would be utterly
impossible for the his slave, and as ii
they did aot know that the point had been made and
tied against them by the courts, and if they did not
know that the summary right TO which the master
entitled superseded any such process We quote au-
thory referred TO by Judge Bayy. (now Of the House Of
Representatives, in speech which he delivered in the
Virginia legislature in lS4i: ...'.....,..,., ob
ITO put the matter past all question viii quote what
Judge Stoy, the federal Of anthoes relation
10 them. Al page GIG. vol D. OF his Commentaries upon
the Constitution. he SAYS IS nd
fugitive sayesl was introduced into the constitution solely
Tor the benefit OF the savehodng States, enable them
other States where slavery tolerated The
OF such provision under decentralization felt
in many States aid whatever would be allowed 10 the
owners; and sometimes, indeed, they met with open
and removal OF lugtves of both classes contemplate
mary ministerial procsedinss and no. the ordinary course
PLAIN, be welt founded the claim Of ownership be esab
hea beyond S az legal g & In eases y ~
oa a. his lIia and 20. upon The preliminary INQUIRY
a 4 herah be
faeie evidence before the authority satisfy its
Judgment that there probable cause believe the party
guy--snch upon an ordinary warrant would justify
MS commitment for trial
AID in the cases of fugitive slaves there would seem
OF ownership without putting the party formal
ton his rights by suit at the common Congress
appear have acted upon this opinion and accordingly
IN the statute upon this snbec have author zsd summary
pfoct edngs before magistrate, upon which he may grant
warrant for removal -,
The summary process granted by the act of 1893 was
not sufficient to accomplish its object; otherwise, why
should there be many fugtves who alarmed by the
recent law. and either flee to Canada crowd the lae
public meetngs' Is il not evident that the former law
has proved inefficient and that and stringen
provisions necessary to eject it's obecti Who,
them should properly object to it, when is intended to
carry on, provision in the constitution which was
unanimously adopted by the federal convention ".
We regret to see the nsdious means which are taken
in the North by wild aboltonists and acous politicians
defeat the late law by force and to urge its
peal because, if it should succeed, another link is stricken
out OF the chain Of the Union. =. re- n s'gs
Thus this Union is placed between two ressouthern
ulraism and northern ultraism When both these bat
teries are at once leyeed against it, it will require all the
moderation and fnness Of its friends, both in the
North and South, to it from ruin In its name,
therefore, we invoke all the cool and true Of the
~, Ia,,h no. min
all their physical and moral energies, as the friends
of order and the laws to carry out this and down
its opponents and let the wise aid unmpassioned pa
ro,s Of the South rally with spirit, but with brothery
orbearance around the altar The danger is
yet over These are, indeed the times which try mems
souls"