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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 10 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 ii 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 to 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 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, authenti-
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 a 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 fempore.
Approved, Sept. Is, 1850.
WILLARD FILLMORE.
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MANUEL PRREl8A;
THE s0vKRKIGN RULE or SOUTH CAROLINA.
Viesos of Sostkern Laos, Life, and Hospitality.
Written In Charleston, s. O., by Y. @. Adams.

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INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
ADOPTED AT PITTSBURGH, AUGUST IL, 1862.


ADOPTED AT PITTSBURGH, AUGUST IL, 1852
Having assembled in National Conyen-
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-
6ding 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-
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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
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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
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justice, and economical administration.
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the Constitution; and the grants Of power
therein ought to be strictly construed by
all the departments and agents Of the Gov
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powers.
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States, ordained TO form a 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 il possesses constitutional power
to Iegislate 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
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that Christianity, humanity, and patriotism,
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ments Of the civilized world. We there
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American People, and demand its imme-
date and total repeal.
VIII. That the doctrine that any human
law is a 6nality, and not subject to modi-
6cation or repeal, is not in accordance
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George w. Morrison, Harry Hibbard
NORTH CAROLINA.
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Ian, Moses B. Corwin, John l. Taylor, w. R.
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McMullen.
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Alvah Sabin.
WISCONSIN.
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