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pass any law in relation to the rendition of flu.

,ass any law in relation to the rendition of flu
sitive slaves?
The first clause of the section from which ,
We quote the foregoing provision provides,
that " the citizens of each Site shall be emit
tied to all the privileges and immunities of
citizens in the several states" In splice
this, citizens of Massachusetts, going in YES
sells to Charleston, in South Carolina. have
b, en- frequently taken by force frosa the YES
sells in which they were peaoeahg employed,
with no offence charged against them but their
color, dragged to prison, shut up there until
their vessel sailed again, and if they did not
pay the charges for board, &C., while so kept |
in jail against their will, were sold into per- |
petual slavery to pay their charges.
This was done by authority Of the laws of
South Carolina! Massachusetts, sent ven
cradle man, of exalted character and intellect
to Charleston as searsent to test peaeeably in
the Federal Courts the constitutionality Of
that law. He and his daughter were driven
away by mob of the chivalry," with
threats of tarring and fsathering. Yet who
even pretended or claimed that Congress
should interfere by law in such case as this,
when no power is given it by the constitution
to make such law2
The secand clause Of the same section pro-
vides that fugitives from justice " shall be de-
livered up, to be removed to the State having
Jurisdiction of the crime" Who ever claim
ed that Congress instead Of the States re-
spectively has the power to interfere in the
matter and make laws tor the rendition OF fu-
\ gitives from justice?
2 The third clause of the same section is the
one we have already quoted in full. It gives
Congress no power whatever. 1t has legally
3 and really Just this effect, under the common
: lao, the lao Of the land, as laid down by Lord
i Mansfield in the Somerset case in It'll,
j slave could not breathe free air. If he lef1
: the State in which he was held to service by
d the laws thereof, and crossed over the line in
S to a free State, the letters fell from his limbs
e he stood forth a trss man or to use Erstlne''
# expression, Redeemed, regenerated, Olsen
'e thralled." This constitutional provision ST
E. far overrides the common law, and by its fore
the 4esoapingr slave remains the PFapefty
e his master in whatever State OF the Union
Of nothing is said about the Territories.
l. If the master wants to catch his escape
ID slave, he has the same remedies as il n
- sought to recover his horse or OK, which ha
: strayed into another State. He has the Leg
y ownership, and the same State laws to enfore
at it as in regard to other property. If tn
I'd "chattel' runs away, kicks up his heels, an
it. aoon't be caught, let hlm hire CAvAsAuG
Ii and SHIELDS to help catch him. If his hor
I'd so runaway, is hard to catch, he can't call VI
I'd on the Sheriff and U. S. Marshall and h
r. posse to help catch him. He can. only call
as legal process, (replevin, for instance,) whe
ly another person has his horse in adverse pc
lin session. Why should the Ksntuckian ha'
It's Congressional legislation to help catch
of chattel (human,) when the Hoosier can ha
IN, no help from State or Nation to help hi
a catch his horse which has straycd into He
10, tleky9
his But Congress has usurped q power In
ore of slave catching, which is not "express
ol- delegated to it. 1t has legislated in aid of
covering slave property escaped from
to State to another, when it has no power to
,an gislate in aid Of recovering any property
cal escaped Even DANIEL WEBSTER, in his
an nous speech of 18th of March, 1850, admit
an. that in his opinion Congress had no power
ado legislate in the matter. By that law, tn
0 is unconstitutional, the whole North are ma
av- slave catchers, and compelled, if called I
ling on, to play the blood hound, under pain
om- fine and Imprisonment This same law a
r in takes from fugtives the right of tria: by
ling nv. guaranteed in Article VII. of the Anne
en- ments to the Constitution, and robs him
nee, "the privilege of the writ Of habeas corpu
air which the Constitution (Sec. . of Article
nts, says shall " not be suspended, unless VIII
+ of in cases of rebellion or invasion, the pu
title safety may require it."
ent The first resolution there is sound doctr
bel and just so far as it is sound it convey
whitening denunciation Of the great Demo'
Nor tic test measure, the Fugitive Slave Law
n be We will in our next show the rottenness
What some of the other planks Of the platform,
float that just so far as they are rotten, they
s. fleet the real policy Of that party.