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attorney. And TO this end, the officer
aforesaid is hereby authorized and requir-
ed to employ so many persons as he may
deem necessary to overcome such force,
and to retain them in his service SO long
as circumstances may require. The said
officer and his assistants, while SO employ
ed, to receive the same compensation,
and to be allowed the same expenses, as
are now allowed by law for transportation
of criminals, TO be certified by the Judge
of the district within which the arrest is
made, and paid out Of the treasury Of the
United States.
SEC. 10. find be it further enacted, That
when any person held to service or labor
in any State or Territory, or in the District
Of Columbia, shall escape therefrom, the
party to whom such service or labor shall
be due, his, her, or their agent or attorney,
may apply to any court ofrecord therein,
or Judge thereof in vacation, and make
satisfactory proof 10 such court, or judge
in vacation, Of the escape aforesaid, and
that the person escaping owed service or
labor to such party Whereupon, the
court shall cause a record to be made OF
the matters so proved, and also general
description Of the person so escaping,
with such convenient certainty as may be ;
and transcript Of such record, authentic
Gated by the attestation Of the clerk and
of the seal of the said court, being pro-
duced in any other State, Territory, or
District, in which the person SO escaping
may be found, and being exhibited to any
Judge, commissioner, or other officer au-
thorized by the law Of the United States
to cause persons escaping from service or
labor TO be delivered up, shall be held and
taken to be full and conclusive evidence
of the fact Of escape, and that the service
or labor of the person escaping is due to
the party in such record mentioned. And
upon the production by the said party Of
other and further evidence, if necessary,
either oral or by affidavit, in addition to
what is contained in the said record, Of
the identity Of the person escaping, he or
she shall be delivered up to the claimant.
And the said court, commissioner, Judge,
or other person authorized by this act to
grant certificates to claimants of fugitives,
shall, upon the production of the record
and other evidences aforesaid, grant to
such claimant certificate Of his right to
take any such person identified and proved
to be owing service or labor as aforesaid,
which certificate shall authorize such
claimant to seize or arrest, and transport
such person to the State or Territory from
which he escaped; Provided, That moth
ing herein contained shall be construed
as requiring the production of transcript
of such record as evidence as aforesaid.
But in its absence, the claim shall be heard
and determined upon other satisfactory
proofs, competent in law.
HOWELL CoBB,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives..
WILLIAM r. KING,
President Of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, Sept. Is, 1850.
WILLARD FILLMORE.
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INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
ADOPTED AT PITTSBURGH, AUGUST IL, IS.

ADOPTED AT PITTSBURGH, AUGUST IL, 1852
Having assembled in National Conven-
ton as the delegates Of the Free Democra-
cy Of the United States, united by COM
mon resolve to maintain right against
wrongs, and freedom against slavery; con-
fding in the intelligence, patriotism, and
the discriminating justice Of the American
people; putting our trust in God for the
triumph of our cause, and invoking his
guidance in our endeavors 10 advance it,
we now submit to the candid judgment Of
all men the following declaration of prin-
ciples and measures:
|. That Governments, deriving their Just
powers from the consent of the governed,
are instituted among men TO secure to all,
those inalienable rights Of life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness, with which they
were endowed by their Creator, and of
which none can be deprived by valid legis-
lation, except for crime.
III. That the true mission Of American
Democracy is to maintain the liberties Of
the people, the sovereignty Of the States,
and the perpetuity of the Union, by the
impartial application to public affairs, with
out sectional determinations, Of the fun
damental principles Of equal rights, strict
Justice, and economical administration.
iii. That the Federal Government is
one Of limited powers, derived solely from
the Constitution; and the grants Of power
therein ought to be strictly construed by
all the departments and agents Of the Gov
eminent, and ii is inexpedient and dan
gerous to exercise doubtful constitutional
powers.
Nv. That the Constitution of the United
States, ordained to form more perfect
union, to establish justice, and secure the
blessings Of liberty, expressly denies TO
the General Government all power TO de-
prive any person Of life, liberty, or prop
erty, without due process Of law; and,
therefore, the Government, having no more
power TO make slave than to make a
king, and no more power TO establish sla-
very than to establish monarchy, should at
once proceed TO relieve itself from all re-
sponsibility for the existence Of slavery
wherever it possesses constitutional power
to legislate for its extinction.
v. That, to the persevering and impor-
tunate demands Of the Slave Power for
more slave States, new slave Territories,
and the naturalization Of Slavery, our dis
tinct and final answer is--no more slave
States, no slave Territory, no nationalized
Slavery, and no national Legislation for the
extradition Of slaves.
vi. That. Slavery is sin against God
and crime against man, which no human
enactment nor usage can make right; and
that Christianity, humanity, and patriotism,
alike demand its abolition.
VII. That the fugitive Slave Act Of 1850
is repugnant TO the Constitution, TO the
principles Of the common law, to the
spirit Of Christianity, and to the senti-
ments Of the civilized world. We there
fore deny its binding force upon the
American People, and demand its imme-
date and total repeal.
VIII. That the doctrine that any human
law is fnality, and not subject to modi-
fcation or repeal, is not in accordance
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PRINTING.

PRINTING.
PAMPHLET PRINTING neatly executed by
Il BUELL. a BLANCHARD,
6ixth street south Of Pennsylvsnia avenue.
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OF faith" that the non-fufment of "nationol
engagements" is "a great moral wroneD exnosing
the offenders ito the righteous Judgments Of the
! remember well my feelings upon this subject.
in October, 1850. / should then have reiciced
with exceeding great joy to have heard from your
ups, to have known that you were ready TO pro-
claim In your pulpits and in public places, the
sancuty OF national engagementsj and the
great moral wrong" Of their noB-fufment; and
especially when contained in the Constitution our
fathers made for us, and upon which all patriots
now look as the ark Of our safety. | have no re-
collection that when the common council of the
city OF Chicago by resolutions refused TO carry
into effect the national engagements" contained
in the Constitution of the United States for tho
return Of fugitves from service, when the council
nulihed an act of Congress passed for the purpose
OF carrying those national engagements into faith
tul execution; when the council called unon the
police to refrain from rendering any assistance in
executing the law when public meetings were
hcla, ana speeches made proposing to defy death
ana the dungeon In resistance to the fulnllment
OF these Irrational engagements |" | say l have
no recollection that, on the solemn and fearful oc-
casion referred to, any one Of your "diyinely-ap-
pointed institution appeared ON the stand or In
the pulpit or elsewhere to proclaim, "in the name
of Almighty God" that the non-fulfllment of
national engagements was great moral wrong.
exposing us to the righteous judgments Of the
Almighty The particulars Of that wild and ter
rihc scene remain wildly impressed upon my
memoryj but repeat that l have not the slight
est recollection that any one Of you was ever sus-
pected Of q desire to see the law enforced much
less to contribute even moral aid to its execution.
There is, however, this difference in the two
cases the national engagement for the return Of
fugityes from service was incorporated into the
Constitution Of the United States, and therefore
forms part Of the supreme law Of the land
while the national engagements, to which you re-
fer as constituting what has been called an ire
vocable compact under the name Of the Missouri
compromise, have no existence in fact are unsus-
tanned by the terms of the law and contradcted
by the record Of the transaction.
What these ministers will do with this, we know
not. If it shall at all open their eyes to the i'm
portancoof aljuing oil compromising, bargaining
union with Shareholders, Mr.. Douglas rctort will
be no less valuable in its results than the clerical
rebuke Of its author was merited and proper.
slave holding Union is no more to be "beov-
ed" by the conscrvators Of justice and morality,
than its Legitimate offspring, the fugitive slave law
and the Nebraska slave extension bill. Such bills
and laws we shall always have while we make
compacts and compromises with Slavery, plightin,
our faith, either to support it to let it alone
In the Union; for what union hath light with dark
ness. or what concord hath slavery with frecdomP
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CINCINNATI CONVENTION.

| c. G. Burleigh writes Of this grand gathering
for freedom, to the Liberator as follows:
Il send herewith the brief sketch of the doings Of
our Convention, which is published in the Gin
cinrati Commercial, together with the Gdzette'S re-
port-yery fair and faithful--of the remarks oi
Boynton editor Of the Christian Press, made just
at the close Of the last session. Had there been
time, brief reply would have been made to his
remarks but at the instant of his closing-t being
about halEpast ten-the President mot aware thai
any one wished to add a word) announced the
completion Of the business, and offered a conclud-
ing prayer.
Altogether, we have had an excellent Conven-
ltiOn, and the friends are all in very good spirits
about it. The attendance was large throughout
-the spacious hall was nearly full in the morning
sessions, just about full in the afternoon, and in
the evening, crowded and packed, while hundreds
the papers here say thousands-had to go away
unable TO get in. The last evening, though an
admission fee of ten cents was charged, the hall
was full half an hour before the time to which we
had Adjourned. One man told me that coming q
little after the time he met the stairs and in the
passage crowd of people going out, such rs is
ordinarily seen just after the adjournment of n
large meeting, and he was assured that it would
be vain for him to try to get in. During the whole
time, with but comparatively trihing exceptions,
the proceedings were marked by perfect order and
decOrum, and a most attentive hearing was given
to the strong bold utterance of anti-sayery truth
the most radical sentiments beirg greeted with the
loudest and most general applause. We had much
animated discussion, both Of points on which all
abolitonists are agreed, and on those about which
we differ. On the second evening, Frederick Dou-
glass made an able speech in defence of his views
Of the Constitution, and most Of the third evening
was taken up with discussion of that subject be-
tween him and myself. The friends of our posi-
tion here express themselves much pleased with
the result Of the discussion, thinking favorable
impression was made The last speech of the
Convention-except Boynton's brief remarks-was
one Of Lucy Stones Enthusiastically beautiful
and impressive ones, which left the audience in a
very good frame of mind for separating, and, in
the quiet of their own homes, considering the
claims of the bondman and his cause upon them
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ANOTHER FREEMANN SENT TO sLAV-
cry.

EDWARD DAVIS, the hero who escaped from Sa-
vannah recently, by clinging to the guards of a
vessel, has been, by the u. S. Commissioner at New
Castle Delaware, sent to slavery, at the claim Of
stakeholder of Macon, Georgia. Davis is, without
doubt a free born Pennsylvania, but that ayails
not to avert his fate. He is the victim of this ty'
rannical Union, which authorizes fugitive slave
laws, and appoints fugitive slave commissioners.
The enormity will be best seen by the following
narrative of Davis unfortunate history, which we
copy from the Tribune. Davis is hero of the
noblest stamp, and none but cravens and serviles
who have no appreciation of true heroism, would
doom such man to the fate of slave. His per-
jured kidnappers win doubtless speedily crush out
his life in the attempt to break his manly spirit.
But Edward Davis can never long live slave, and
soon. doubles will his innocent blood be added to
that Of the millions of murdered victims, which
now cries to Heaven against this wicked nation
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE
AMERICAN ANTI-sLAvRRY SOCIETY

The Twentieth Anniversary Of the American
ti.Slavery Society will be held in the City 0
Now York, in the REV. DIR. CHAPIN'S CHURCH
in Broadway between Spring and Prince Streets
on WEDNESDAY, May 10th, 1854, ut 10 o'clock
A. NJ. The names of the speakers will be announ
ccd hereafter.
The Society will hold meetings for Business and
Discussion lin some hall yet to be procured) the
evening following the public Anniversary and on
the succeeding THURSDAY and FRIDAY. May
llth and 18th.
The members and friends Of the Society far and
near are earnestly invited to be present at the pub
lie Anniversary and to give us the benefit Of their
counsel and cooperation at the subsequent meet
ings. The condition Of the country in relation to
the Anti.Slsvery Agitation will present for the
consideration of the Society," topics of the gravest
Importance affecting its future action hence n
large attendance is desirable.
WIN. LLOYD GARRISON, Prest
EDNuSD QuIScY,
8. ii. GAY, Secretaries.
WESDKLL PuiLLirs,
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OBITUARY.

| DIED-0n the Slst Of 2nd mo-, at his residence
in Millwood, Guernsey county. Ohio, in the 57th
year of his age, JESSE ScoTT, after short illness
The deceased has for q number of years been
engaged in urging the cause Of tho down-rodden
and oppressed amongst those with whom he was
wont to converse. lie was ever jealous in the fur
therance of all reform, combating the enemy of
light lie was often led to lament the departure Of
society from that which he conceived to be the true
way Of light and life; he entertained lively hope
that there was emerging from world of darkness
corruption and confusion, Progressive people,
who were free and unbiased worshppers of the true
God.
But he is gone gone to reap the reward of the
righteous, "where the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest" P.s.
DIED-Near Marlboro, on the 9th of March,
of consumption, Thomas NJ. WIcKERsHAM, aged "a
years and 10 months.
1t is with regret that we announce the death of
our friend. So young, so generous, so noble; with
heart imbued with spirit of love for all man
kind, it seems hard that he should have been taken
from our midst. For number of years he had
been actively engaged in the Ant-Slavery cause,
and his.warm and active sympathies for the injured
and down-trodden African race and his labors for
their emancipation, will be remembered with pleas
ure, by the friends of universal freedom. He has
been an invalid for many years, and bore his afic-
tions with philosophical resignation. But now he
sleeps in peace. large circle of friends and rel
atives will mourn his loss but none will lament il
with that depth of sorrow-that grief which knows
no reconciliation, as will his bereaved PARENTS
For to them he was son indeed, ever loving, kind
and oblging, ever ready to lessen their labors and
soothe their sorrows. Thomas, fare thee well.-
The remembrance of thy many good deeds will
be held in grateful recollection by those who know
thcc. SF
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PENNSYLVANIA YEARLY MEETING or
PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS.

This Association will convene for mutual hell
and edfcation, and for the discharge Of its appro
pirate duties as a religious body, in the meeting
house at Old Kennett, Chester County, on FRS
day. the 2lst of Fifth moEth, 1854, at III o'clock
a. NJ, and continue by adjournments from day tC
day as long rs necessity may require.
Creed-makng forms no part of the objects oi
this Society. Disclaiming all ecclesiastical au-
thority, and avoiding the tangled controversies by
which the popular churches arc perpcxcd aud bc.
wildered it seeks to unite mankind, not by agree
ment in theological opinions, but through oneness
Of spirit in respect to the practical duties of life
the communion of soul with soul in n common
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Of the Human Family without regard to sect
color or condition, and who acknowledge the duty
of defining and illustrating their faith in God, by
lives of personal purity and works Of beneacence
and charity to mankind.
The name of Friends" was adopted in no tech
nical or narrow sense, and with no intention that
the Society should be identified with or limited by
the scctarian peculiarties Of older associations,
but in the broad primary and comprehensive
meaning of the word as it was employed by Jesus
when he said, al have called you .triends'-"Ye
are my friends, if ye do whatsoever ! command
you"
We therefore affectionately invite all sincere in
quirers after truth, who may be attracted by the
principles Of our organization, and who, weary Of
the srifes of Sect looking for higher and purcr
manifestations Of the religious sentiment to meet
with at the time above specified, and to give us
the benefit Of their counsel and cooperation.
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JosEPH A. DuGDALE,
THOMAS GARRETT,
g. NJ. BURLEIGH,
SiDNaY PIERCE.
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Is. FUssELL,
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Penn.
Friends residing in the vicinity of the place Of
meeting, offer the hospitality of their homes to
those coming from abroad.
Editors of newspapers, friendly to the objects of
the meeting, are invited to publish this call.
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ITEMS.

The President has refused to sign the bill grant
ing ten millions of acres Of public launds for
distribution among the States for the benefit of the
insane .--Thirty emancipated slaves from Fay
ette county, KY, passed through Louisville q few
days since, on their way to Liboria-Father
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"The Gadsden treaty has been rejected in the
Senate, by vote of 26 to l8.--John Davis,
ex-U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, died last
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