The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-11-28

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By the laws of this State it is provided that
if a fugitive slave shall be arrested, he shall be
defended by the Attorney of the Common
and all expenses Of such defense paid
out of the public treasury. Fhe buildings be-
to the State are forbidden the recep-
ton or securing fugitive slaves, and all officers
are forbidden, under heavy penalties, from ar
or aiding in the arrest of fugitive
slaves. Ifa Shareholder or other person shall
.unlawfully seize or ccnfne a fugitive slave he
shall be liable to be imprisor ed for not more
than five years or fined not exceeding $1,000.
If a slave into tine State, the slave is thereby
made free, and if the master undertake to ex-
ercise any control over him, he is subjected to
in p%risonment for not less than one year, or
fined not exceeding $1,000.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Your committee have not had access to a
complete series of the laws of this State. But a
general index, which has been consulted,
shows that a law exists by which all slaves en-
tering the State, either with or without the
consent of their masters, are declared free.
and any attempt to capture OF hold them is
declared to be a felony.
Her Laws now forbids all citizens and officers
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cute the Fugitive. Slave act, or to arrest a flu
gltive slave, under penalty of Imprisonment
for not less than one year, or a fine not excee.
ding $1,000. 1t also forbids the use Of all
public jails and buildings 4sSr the purpose of
such slaves. The attorneys for the
State are directed, at public expense; to de-
f.ud, and procure to be discharged every per-
sen arrested as a fugitive slave. The habeas
corpus act also provides that fugitive slaves
shall be tried by jury, and interposes other OBJ
stacles to the execution of the Fugitive Slave
act.
TIL law further provides, hat all persons
u~nlawfully capturing, Selling or combining a
person as a fugitive slave shall be confined in
the State Prison not more than ten years, and
fined not exceeding 81 900. Every person
held as a slave, who shall be brought iato this
State, is declared free, and all persons who
shall hold or attempt to hold as q slave any
person so brought into the State in any form,
or for any time, however short, SHALL he con
fined in the State Prison not less than one nor
myre than fifteen years, and fined not exceed
ing $4,000.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The Lays of this State forbid, under heavy
penaties, her citizens and State and county
officers from executing the Fugitive Slave act
or fcem araeeting a fugitive slave, or from aid
ing in either; and de MES the use of her jails
and public buildings for such purposes.
The Governor is required to appoint Com
missioDers in every county to aid fugitive
slaves IN recovering ffbsir fase&eE when pro,
ceeded against as fugitive slaves, and all costs
attending such proceedings are directed to be
paid by the State.
Any person who shall remove, or attempt
SO remove, or come into the State with the in
t%ention to remove, or assist in removing, any
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meaning of the Constitution, is fable ITO pun
ishment by fue not less than 81, 900 nor more
than 81 5000, and IGaprissnanent not less than
one nor more than five years.
Their habeas corpus act gives trial by jury
to fugitive slaves, and interposes other imped-
iments to the hunting of fugitive slaves.
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This Sta*e which ;as late as 1910 tolerated
slavery, within her own bo8ders. as appears by
the censns of Jlsat gear, rpFOb1bts, under Sc
we're penalties, all her officers from aiding in
executing the Fugitive Slave act, and vacatcs.
all official acts which may be done by them in
attempting to execute that law. .-&utl
By the act of 1854, sec. i, it is provided
that every person whe>shail falsely and knali-
ciously declare, represent or pretend that any
person entitled to freedom is a slave, or owes
service or labor to any person or persons, with
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ring, the forcible removal of such free person
from this State as a slave, shall pay a fine Of
$1,000. and shall, be imprisoned five years in
the State prison. -HsratGt r,f t, .i
Sec q. InaH cases arising under this act,
the truth of and declaration, representation or
pretence that any person being or having been
in this State, is or was a slave, or owes or did
owe -seNHieeaor labor te;ang other peEsaa.or per
sens, shall not be deemed proved, except by
the testimony cf at least two credible witness
es testifying to facts directly tending to the
truth of such decleEatiea, pretence or repre-
sentation, or by legal evidence equivalent
thereto. -#rs . -
Sec. 8 subjects to a fine of SIS, 900, and i'm
prisonment in the State prison for five years,
all who shall seize any person entitled ito free
dom, with intent to have such person held in
Slavery.
Sec. 4 prohibits the admission of .deposi-
tons in all cases under this act, and provides
that if any witness testiGes falsely in behalf of
the party accused and prosecuted under this
act, he shall be fined $4,000, and imprisoned
five years in the State prison.
RHODE ISLAND.
The .statues of Rhode Island provide that
any one who transports, or causes to be trans
ported, by land or water, any person lawfully
iuhabiting therein, to any place without the
limits of the State, except by due course of
law, shall be imprisoned not less than one nor
more than ten years. They also prohibit all
officers from aiding i'll executing the Fugitive
Slave act, or arrestiRg a fugitive slave and de-
ny the use of her jails and public buildings
for securing any such fugitives.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Prior to 1917. non resident owners of slaves
were allowed to retain them in Psnnsylva-
MIA not exceeding six months. In 1917 this
privilege was revoked. Slaves are also allow
ed to testify in all cases in he,eoHrts of Penn
sylvapia. 1T is further provided by law, that
ary person who Niokntly and tumultuously
sejzes upon any negro. erflnulatto, and carries
such negro away to any place, either with or
without the intention . fft4king such negro be-
fore. a district or circuit judge, shall be fined
not exceeding 81 LOCO, and imprisoned in the
county,jail net. exceeding three months. The
Law .also Furnishes with heavy fine, and i'm
prisSnment in rthe ,penitentiary, any person.