Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-11-25

clause of the Constitution OF the United States
which empowers Congress to make all needful
rules and regulations respecting the Territory,
&c. And again. saws Chief Justice Marshall,
--'s The POWER TO GOVERN THE TERRITORIES is
uNQUETIoNED. All the Judges, from the
Slave States, united, in this opinion, with
Judge Marshall. This was in 1923, when
Florida was IA Territory, and eight years after
the prohibition of Slavery by the Missouri
Compromise bill.
In 1915, on the first day of March, Congress
adopted the resolutions for the admission Of
Texas, by which Slavery was prohibited in all
that part Of the Territory lying north of IS
degrees 80 minutes. rbe whole South md the
whole Democratic party in Congress united in
voting for this prohibition.
In lS48, President james X. Polk approved
and signed the bill forever prohibiting Slavery
in Oregon In this he was sustained by the then
Democratic party.
In 1913, Congress, including Southern as well
as Northern members, voted to extend the Mis-
souri, Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean
thus voting to exclude Slavery from all the re-
glons north Of that line, on bota sides of the
Rocky Mountains.
In 1850, Congress passed an act establishing
a Territorial Government in New Mexico, in
"n,on I"o P ac i." % toa ,ras
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Ruohanons tho Sl;dells and Toonbs tbn Mason
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covarv tbat C"naress bas no noyar to mrab;b,
SI,vayyv '; in tbo W3t,onoI Tnrr;tor;os Tbo ovar
wholn;r1, ,n,,or of - s;nala Sectional ;rtoros
hna ,naS,,aaod th;a ,romderGI aon,h;aot;a, -
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pranort,, IN slarns onlv bo hnld hv tba ,,5
sioof lay r. fnroo rhoro Ia lnaol low dos pn ~
snnnrosS Il No rnonort II n,ssas fron nnd e
fat pnnrat;or g tbnsa I1osl 1--we - 10 nn nmao
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prTr.,r vyrnI rn o,,rs,nr W. So On ,r,
Iard M,nsfo,I ~Liaf Inat;no MarsbaI n =,
bnst ~ am,;nnmt ;'dnoa hotb +, Enr"mn Nv,
tmor;ca bann don1p Nh onnr tn +ha ;ud;a;al ~,
NINA hv ' "nd onf,ronr tLnso wi,
nrIes 1ot "s tga - ~ tho su'V >,
niro'. H. ~ . 1 o''a ~
Evnn Tho Slora. 8 q x, ss.r r ,'P"
baya hon nroud Il recorn;ya those nr;nc,,lo. -,
sottlod law and II was ,,o+ pnt;l NO adylnr;,,
strides Of fine slayn mower Unveiled the S'nrnu
Cont and fine President TO Ignore them N,
tbesc States have f,lterad in tRe,r noble enn,
, citation of this hirber and universal law
, As an illustration amosc many othcrs of n
FIJI r,oonn;tinn of thes. nr2n,;nl9s in tLo Sla,
. States ,sn will onlv instance tho case If p.r
. lin va Iyd;o dncAod Inv Tho Count ne AnnooI
tba b;rLo,t ;nd;c;oI tr;hynaI in KontnckIr
that caso tho joornnd .Jndgo Mills in dcl;vor;r
the on;n,on Of tLe Court saws .-
i" WesvIew this slavery g us u right exstir
Y by poSitipe iqp of municipal character, WITT
Q OUT FOUNDATION IN THE LAW OF NATURE, or ii
. unwritten and common law.
: From the vast number, high strnding, and u
9 gency of the petitioners, before your Commits
Q for a law to prevent the delivering up of an
f person who has been held as slave, we are in
s PEELED by u sense of duty seriously to consd
r this subject
f.; BY the act of Congress of the 18th of Sc
0 TENDER, 1850. fugitive slaves (persons owing Sc
y vice. escaping into the Free States are, by
e summary process, brought before II Unit
t States officer called Commissioner. If Il
t claimant makes it appear that the individu
: arrested is his slave loves servlce,) nc is dell
: ered up to such claimant to be remanded
n his former condition OF Slavery. In these cas-
there Is no such thing as common law process
+ the supposed fugitive is not witness no til
n by jury Is allowed him; any proof that ten
e to satisfy the Commissioner, or any that
>, pleases to receive, is admissable-and there
u no appeal from his decision to any other cou
n or tribunal.