The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-11-13
TIE FUGITIVE SLAVE Law.


Ike morbid sympathy mantle ted at tn,
North On the passage Of this bill, which
only rcnde Q ardy Justice to las SorA, re
fleets bat l,tIle credit on The indifference
with which tney have regarded tia statute
| for The eXlradltiOn OF free white men. A,
early as 1922, law was passed 20 render
operative the clause la tk4 Constitution
which provides for the Surrender Of fugitive.
| lTom Justice OF from labor.
Whenever the executive authority Of ain,
State in the Union, or 81 either of the terri.
tories northwest or South ofthe river Ohio
shall demand any person As fugitive from
justice, of the executive authority Of any
such State or Territory 10 which such per.
son SHALL have fed, and shall. moreover, pro-
duce the copy o. an Indictment found, or an
affidavit made, before a magistrate Of any
such Stale or Territory. charging The DER,
son 50 demanded with havinS committed
treason. felony, or other crime, certified a
autheltc byIs governor or chief magistrate
OF the State or Territory from whence the
person SO charged fed, it shall be the dut J
of the executive authority Of the State or
Territory 10 which the person shall have
fled, to cause him OF her 10 be arrested ard
secured, and notice of the arrest 10 be given
to the executive authority making such de-
mand, or TO the agent Of such authority APP
pointed 10 receive the fugitive, and to cause
the fugitive to be delivered 10 such agent
when he shall appear: bat if no such agent
shall appear within six months from the time
OF the arrest. the prisoner may he dischar-
nd all
the experimenting, securing and tran smitting
such fugitive to the State or Territory ma
king such demand, sball be paid BY such
State or Territory,
Any agent so appointed, who shall re-
ceive the fugitive into his custody, shall be
empowered TO Transport him or her TO the
State or Territory from which he or she
shall have fed. And if any person or per-
sons shall. by force, set al liberty, or rescue
the fugitive from such agent, while trans>
porting him or her, as aforesaid, the person
or persons SO offending, shall, on conviction
be fined not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars,
and be imprisoned hot exec ding one year.
Under this law thousands have been drag
ged from their homes and carried hundreds
Of miles, with irons on their limds, and tried
aud convicted, or acquitted, as the evidence
might be. No trial by jury is allowed to
the accused al his own hume or the place OF
his arrest. The writ Of habeas corpus only
suffices for an examination into the formality
Of the papers. The facts cannot be inqui-
ed into, and the guilt or innocence OF the
party is to established in distant tribunal
Not yeal passes that individuals are not
arrested in New Orleans and given up to Of
ficers from other States. Cases Of singular
hardship have come under our own observa.
ton. New York creditors are particularly
eager to avail themselves of its stringent
clauses. Let New Orleans merchant com.
nit the offence of being under protest, and.
forthwith, an affidavit is made Of his obtain
ing the goods under false pretences-a re.
QUESTION is obtained, and the unfortunate
debtor is at once seized and carried to New
York. We have never heard Of any indigna
lion meetings got up against this convenient
mode ofaTresling debtor. There is infn-