Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-29

any person who shall forciby take or arrest any FL
gre slave with design to take BIN ont of the State
without having established his claim according to
the laws of the United States shall be confined in the
not less than one year and not more
than seven years.
INDIANA-The laws about the same, so far as we
have been able to investigate, as in Illinois.
OHIo.-We have not had the opportunity of exam
lining the laws of Ohio but judging from the refusal
of the present Governor of that State to issue re
QUESTION upon the demand of the Governor of Ten
nessee to arrest thief who had stolen negroes from
this State and sold them in Virginia presume the
laws Of Ohio are anything but favorable to the Flu
gitive Slave Law.
MrcH1eAN.-By s /, oh. IFS, claws of Michigan,
1857, vol. 2, p. 1850 imposes fine of $1,000 and
imprisonment in the county Jail is imposed on
any officer for OBTAINING a fugitive slave III
any Jail or other public building. By oh. III,
the prosecuting attorneys of the State are re-
CURED diligently aad faithfully to use all law
full means to protect every person claimed as a
fugitive slave. An persons so claimed shall
be entitled to all the benefits of the writ Of habeas
corpus and trial by jury. The testimony of two
credtable witnesses required to prove that the
fugitive is slave By act of 1882 Up. $3.50 any per-
son carrying any negro or muatto into the State,
claiming him or her as slave shall be punished by
Imprisonment in the State prison not more than ten
years or by fine not exceeding $1,000. The Mlehi-
gan Legislature by resolutions approved February
4th, 1857 declared among other things, we res
pectfully demand our of Senators and earnestly ASK
Of our Representatives in Congress to resist to the
utmost the admission of any more slave States into
the Union and to use their best exertion to secure
the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
and the prohibition by law of slavery in all the Ter
ritories and in the District of Columbia"
WBcoxslx.-By oh. 1885, it is made the duty of tbs
district attorneys wherever any inhabtant is claim
ed as fugitive slave, on being informed thereof
diligently and faithfully to all lawful means t.
protect defend and procure to be discharged ever.
such person so claimed. The official application o
any district attorney shall be sufficient authority
authorize the issuing of the writ of hdbeGS corpus
It is the duty of all judicial and executive officers
the State who shall have good to believe tina
any inhabitant of the State about to be claimed
fugitive slave, forthwith to give notice thereof
the district attorney of the county trial by Jur
is granted. The testimony Of two creditable wi
nessess person. testfying to facts directly tendin
to establish the truth of the claim, required n
judgment recovered for neglect, refusal to ODE.
or for any violations of the Fugitive Slave Law
1850, can be enforced By ch 164, AZ, every perso
who, without lawful authority shall fOrcibly or s
crety cOnne any fugitive slave in the State, or TO
chilly seize or confne with intent to carry or sen
out of the State any fugitive slave shall be impri
oned in the State prison not more than two nor LEI
than one year, or by fine not exceeding $1,000, NJ
less than $500.
IowA-The laws of Iowa similar to those
Indiana. The Legislature of Iowa passed resol
lutions approved March 49, 1852 exactly similar
the resolutions passed by the Legislature of Mali
in 1857 from which we quoted yesterday.
We have thus given as correctly we could wi
our facilities glimpse at the laws and resolution
of fifteen of the Northern States that stand upC
their statute books examples of persistent and pra
teal notification. Notwithstanding this, how little
nunciation of Black Republican tendencies and no
much denunciation of the Southern Democracy
we find in the BELL and DOUGLAS journals. There mu
be reason for this silence as to Northern aggre
sions AMI this constant war upon Southern mt
who have in every sense of the word as much
stake as their denunciatOrs. Let the people refe
and reason about these things.