Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-03-01

this law has not been faithfully executed that the
slaves and their agents from the savehoding States
have been sued and prevented BY legal chicaney from the
execution Of the trust con6ded them. Whose fault
that 1t is the fault Of the fugitive slave statute but the
fault, when there any, Of your system Of laws You
not suspend the habeas corpus act and you always
prevent the abuse Of it. How you stop from ins
tung suit against me- although he has not the least sha
dow OF just claim You cannot presuppose that such is
the state of the CASE for the very object Of suit to
examine where the right is. Does every days expert
show that impeachment after mpedmen almost without
number, be thrown in the way of justice There are
always many lawyers to be found in all parts the coun
try far different in their principles and conduct from the
nator from Virginia, who willing all the process of
the law TO obtain the object Of their employers Every body
knows this If the Senator has tract Of land in Michigan
although bis rights fully secured to by the consttu.
ton if in Vrsnis, still his efforts obtain posses
sion may be defeated delayed almost indefinitely while
the time he may be put to runous costs And of
citizen of Michigan who seeks to his fugitive a
prentice from Virginia. But it be said that the
stutona provisions therefore violated because requires
time and money enforce them in individual cases. A
great deal Of this unjust operation is owing to system of
opinion have long held and have often expressed
system unworthy of the age and unfit for the country
Its psnegyss call the perfection Of human for my
part believe great deal Of it is the perfection Of human
nonsense originating in the darkest period Of the human in
eec and in Of society under form OF government
and amid feuaI times Of all which is the relic, and,
stead of promoting the great objects Of free and equal and
speedy Justice, il too often ends in uinous injustice
Now, appeal the honorable Senator from Virginia if
he received personal injury In New York, which,
being followed by redress, followed by suit against him
the part Of wrong doer, whose fault is that Is
violation of the constitutional immunity secured To the cit-
Stale when visiting another Certainly not for it is
likely happen him in his own State out Of it.
And il an apprentices escapes, horse is s,oen debt
unpaid, the thing may happen Redress, at
money and trouble and even then there
tainty that it will be attained
repeat that The abuse and delay of the law faults
Of the system and all acts of Congress- carry into effect
provisions 1, the constitution, must be administered upon
the general system they are of subject to II, defects
ne honorable Senator says the recatue OF fugitive slave
expensve-mors to most men, than the real vsiue
do not doubt it, and wish that practical remedy were
iound Tor It, The Senator suggests none and until great
deal OF the caicaney Of the law is removed am AFRAID an
eecua one will not be found. But the grievance 10 moi
confined TO these regions IL extends 10 oil, and u you viii
show me community in Chrsendom where justice b