Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-14

throughout me present morbid system OF lne
cOnfederacy! ! will give the recipe in fall =
Resolved that more ef7lctual provision ought
to be made by law for the restitution and dcliv'
cry ut persons bound 10 service or labor in any
Suite, VINO may escape into any other state or
territory of this Union
That may not be accused Of injustice 10
Mr.. Clay in my subsequent remarks, will
quote from his speech:
III do not say, sir, r,lhat privtte individual Is
obliged to make tour Of his whole state, in or
der TO assist the owner Of slave to recover his
propert; but DO say if he is present when
the owner of slave is about to assert his tights
and regain possession of his property, that he
and every one present, whether officer or agent
of the state government, or private indiydur', is
bound to assist in the execution of the laws Of
their ,nntry" al will 90 with the farthest
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nal laws TO impose the heaviest sanctions upon
the recovery of fugitive slaves, and the restora-
ron Of Them to their owners"
Such is the plnacea, aud such il the manner
in which pur medical adviser proposes TO admin,
stcr it. He must rot be surprised if there
should be some difficulty experienced IN com'
pelling the patient to swallow the dracgIh.
Mr.. Clay has long been a fayorer Of those
field sports in which the prey is man, and he
has the merit it is believed, of being the first to
conceive the grand idea Of securing national
intercommunity in these sports, by means of III
tcrnot tional treaties.
So early as the 10Th 0! June, 1926, as Secte.
tary of State, he proposed to the British govern.
men to throw the Cunados open for this sport, and
in return, TO British sportesmen should be ac-
corded the privilege of hunting West lndia ne
groes throughout the whole extent of the Amer.
lean Republic. But John Bull rejected the ten
dered reciprocity, and churlshly replied, The
law ofparllament gave freedom to every slave
who affected his landing on British ground"
About the same time we requested from Mex
leo the boon of hunting negroes over her wide
area. The desired favor was denied and We
have since forciby added almost half her terrific
ry TO our own hunting grounds. OF all the game
laws in existence, that of 1898, which regulates
the chase of negroes, is the most horrible; ye
Mr.. Clay is dissatisfied with it, and calls upoI
Congress to make it more effectual, and of cours,
more horrible.
Should Virginian come to New York il
search of horse, and find him in possession o
another, who claims him as his property, how i
he to recover the animal? Only by process @
law, and that process requires that jury c
twelve impartial men, drawn by lot, shall pas
upon the conflicting claims. Neither party ha
any choice in selecting the jury, nor can eithe
of them establish his claim by his own evj
derce
~ But if the virginian is hunting a man, an
enc ses val serve ms g tie sna soaai 81
ern market, but who claims to belong to himse
how is he to secure him? Why, he may cate
his man as well as he can. and without warren
may carry hlm before any Justice Of the Peac
whom !or sufficient reasons he may think prope
to select, and swear the man he has caught
his, and the man may surrender the man to pc
petual bondage, degradation and misery. VI
rlous officers besides justices, are authorized I
act, so that the Virglnian has q wide choice.
Surely this is hunting made easy by law; but
is not found 60 easy in practice. Latterly VI
rious states have prohibited their town office
from assisting in the chase OF human beings, an
citizens rarely lend any unpaid assistance
Hence new game law is deemed ncedful, an
Mr. Clay, as we have seen, is pledged to G
with the /" farthest Southern Senator" the mo
devoted lover of the sport to make it effectua
The judiciary committee, have accordingly n
ported bill now before the Senate. al agree
said Mr.. Mason, one of the farthest southel
senators, in his speech on the bill, 81 agrt
that the federal government has no power to in
pose duties of any kind upon officers of sta
Governments as SUCH"
Ofcourse, the obligation imposed by the la
Of 1893, upon Justices of the Peace and oth
State officers, to catch slaves, are void, and OIL
Northern Legis atures, it is admitted, have
right to prohibit them from participating in slaV
hunts.
To obviate this difficulty, it becomes nece
sary to select other than State officers to adjud
cate upon questions of higher import than an
with the single exception of life and death, til
ever exercised the talents, learning, virtue, al
independence of the most august tribunals
any country. And who are grave and revcreI
judges appointed by this bill to sit in iudgme
on the liberty or bondage of native born Anne
leans?
, Among these judges are twenty thousaI
pOsimasterS. Each one of these new Judges
authorized to adjudge any man, woman, or chi
black or white, to be a vendible chattel a
, and this judgment is to be founded on any pre-
, that may be satisfactory to said postmaster,
= the words of the bill, "eilher by oral testimo
or by affidavit" nor is the testimony of the
y terested claimant excluded and fron this jud
ment their is no appeal. Slavery is no long
confined To one color.
, The Southern papers abound with nuverts
. ments offering rewards for fugitive slaves, &C
=. tanning the caution that they will probably
i to pass as white person.
7 few years since Maryland Shareholder
i Philadelphia, caught white girl, whom
h claimed as slave. The case was brought
Il. fore Pennsylvania judge, and occupied t
lays, and it was proved by the most abund'
i. and overwhelming evidence, that the aleg
slave was the orphan daughter of poor Irish I
rents. The mother had died in the PhiladelPi
+. hospital, and the daughter had never been
a Maryland.
t, By pending amendment to this bill, eva
it man and woman who, prompted by the holi
IT impulses of our nature, shall harbor or conce