Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-03-21
DAILY FREE pREsS-MARCH 10. 1851.
Ohio NuIlifcstion,
The Philadelphia Ledger says

pus, when comes quite up 10 the Vermont act lie
makes 1t the duty OF the Attorney General Of the
state, and the prosecuting attorneys OF the eopn,-s-
TO protect and defend all persons arrested us ~
gtlve slaves and TO make immediate application to
specified courts and Judges tor the wrt 1f habeas
corpus: such and Judges to gran, ,he writ
| and upon its return to grant trial by Jury OIL ali
questions tact at issue between the parties provd-
ed eIther party mage Application tor such Trial 1t
the verdict OF the Jury just called shall be in favor
OF the person claimed a fugitive slave he shall
forthwith be restored 10 his liberty and if the
claimant shall again claim ownership in the slave
within the State, he shall Re deemed guilty of felony
and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the
penltentlary Tor net more than five, nor less than
two years.
What we have to say is, that the act is right
aud just and we wish to see the day when
every State in the Union possesses Law
totidem rerbiS the same, And why not, Slaves
are MEN,-HUMAN BsiNGs,-every where liz
this world, and in the other, except in Slave
States; and it is the highest duty of all States
to protect the rights and liberties OF their inhab-
ltants against unlawful infringement. The
ONO Law, like thlt oi , eItnont, ontemDaes
no resistance to the Law Of { ongress,-quite
the reverse. 1t simply points out in what man
ner an inhabitant of that State shall proceed to
defend himself against unlawful extradition -
1t does not prevent Commissioner Ingrahams
from surrendering freemen to slave catchers,
but does guaranty the inalienable right to the
Writ Of llABEAs CoRpUs to ALL,-bond or free
and submits the final adjudication ofthe con-
tested right to personal freedom to TRIAL by
jury, under the National Constitution and the
National Laws. The Law of Ohio, like that
Of Vermont, piain y contempidies that, under the
Constitution and the Law of Congress. per-
son claimed Fugitive from service" shall
be dclWere upto the claimant, on the verdict of
a Jury but also provides that when such YER
; dict finds the alleged fugitive TO be FaEE.
MAN. any subsequent claimant of the same man
) shall be deemed guilty Of felony" This is
! right By the humane and ust provisions of
Law, no mans life can be placed in jeopardy
twice for the same Offence, and why should not
his LIBERTY, which is dcarer than life, be pro-
tected by equal safeguards The mercenary
1 save-cacher who ventures to arrest a man as
a slave who has once been pronounced by a
= Jury ofhis country, to be a FREEdAH, lisa felon,
whether the Law makes him one or not. The
IIabea Corpus ami Trial by Jury, mot guns
these days Of a higher civilization and a better
acknowledged Christianity. We wish never to
see the day when these great Ri hts, of which
no man can be deprived, under any pretence, in
Monarchlcal England. are denied to any human
being. under any circumstances, in any Amcr>
lean State that calls Itself FREE! We stand
by the Constitution OF the Land. We consent,
r though with sorrow and shame. that those men
. whom the Writ of Iabea Corpus and the or
deal Of Trial by Jury cannot save from Slavery,
! under the Constitution, shall be remanded to-
\ Slavery. But further than this we do not 60
s the thousandth part ola hair So far as hunan
8 freedom is concerned, in such cases, we are
n strict constructlonlstS." Let the South have
n d" the pound of flesh thot is nominated IN, the
i bond" but let Is take care that
= " IN the cutting it, they DO not sled
r One DRop OF CHRISTIAN BLOOD"
: Ii is all very well for cur excellent So,aDern
u brethren to tilk about the Consultations rights
J. Of Shareholders and Slave labor, while they
Il steadily refuse the commones, rights Of Free
Il men and Free Labor. We are decidedly in
e favor of some sort of reciprocity, at Least The
IS Country was told by the Peace makers who
passed the famous Comprumise Laws OF the
last Session of Congress, mo. openly, to he sure,
but such was the uHaerstdHding) that if sutfi~
j. ciently strngentI.aws were passed to protect the
rs interests Of Slavery, 10 Southern opposition
l. would be made to necessary laws to protect the
le interests of INDUSTRY at the Noth-or, IN other
'' words, that the passage of sufficient Fugitive
= SLAVE LAW, would reconcile the South to the
~ passage OF a sufficient TARIFF Law. W c hold
No all such bargains in utter abopination We
n have never consented, and will never consent,
ne to any compromise of our Constitutional oppo-
We sltion to the existence and spread of Slavery
> We stand, in this respect on the broad platform
~ erected by DANIEL WEBSTER, which ma!
10 be found at the mead of this article. We gran
Use nothing 10 slavery, outside of the Consultation
= while We claim every thing for Freedom, inside
Inc and outside of that instrument. But, at thu
"" same time, if the North yields to the demand
,n Of the South, We INSIST that the terms OF IN
of Compromise shall be- complied with Rnt th'
OF South, aided by such miserable denng ogues a
's fSttEiS NuSS anu ffuAtt ~ DtChiHSuH, hsN
the having secured all they desire, defeated, in tn
t Congress that has just odiourncd, the River a"
of llarbor Bill, and all modification of the exist
,ter ing infamous Tariff-lIeasures essential to tn
wa, prosperity Of the North and to Free Labor. Mus
b to we ALWAYS I've hewers ofwood and drawer
OF of water for the Slave holding portion of thi
'"' Union? Where, we respectully yet earnesS
Il" ask, is there any mutually ofconcession IN the S
o'-, much landed and glorifed compromise T@eas
urcS: Nowhere What has the great Mort
Their the bone and sinew of the Republic, the po
sid ton Of II that respects, and seeks to eleyat
owe the dignity of Labor, got for facilitating Il
'o' miserable labors of slave catchers in her citi
was "a vi: ~.
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