Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-28

constitutional measures fsr the Accomplishment Of
these ends.
One Of the resolutions approved June Is,
1859 denounces the refusal to grant passports to
negroes going abroad the refusal to grant them reg
isters for their vessels with the right to navigate
them as masters and the refusal to grant them the
right of entry upon the public domain, to become
purchasers as ian unjust and illegal denial and IN
vssion Of the rights of citizens of New Hampshire"
Anothes resolves shat these and other other aggres
sions Of the slave power make the prohibition of the
further extension OF slavery necessity, and its dbo-
Mion where we have the power, a duty"
YERMoST.-By oh. l6l, 8 2, (Waiams' Compiled
Sotsses 1851. o. $3.50 mo officer or citizen Of the
State shall arrest detain aid in arresting de-
tanning of any person claimed fugitive slave.
By s 8, No officer or citizen of the State shall re
move or aid in removal ''from any place in the
State to any place within without the same any
person claimed as a fugitive slave Any person Of
Tending against the provisions of the ect shall for
felt sum not exceeding one thousand dollars or be
imprisoned in the State prison not exceeding five
years. By Z it is made the duty Of State Attor-
neys whenever any nhabitant of the State is arrest
ed as fugitive slave, diligently and faithfully to
use all lawful means to protect defend and procure
to be discharged every person SC arrested. By s.
it is made the duty of all judicial and executive Off
who have good reason to believe that any inhab-
liant of the State is about to be arrested as fugi-
tive slave forthwith to give notice to the State At
torney of that county.
By SS g. 10, IL. it is made the duty of the courts
to issue writs of habeas corpus to take the fugitive
sIo from Tho TT,feol c4,+o. oasoo~s
By oh. 103 %, any person who shall without law
full authority fcrcibly secretly conne or imprisOn
any person with intent to carry or send him out
of the State 70 be held to service, such person
SO offending shall be punished by Imprisonment in
the State prison not more than ten years and be
fined not exceeding $1,000. By act approved Nov.
Is, 1858, 5 3, whenever any person is claimed a
fugitive slave be shall be entitled to trial by jury.
By G, every slave who goes into the State thereby
becomes free. By Z, any person who holds or at
tempts to hold in the State as slave any one for
any time, however short, under the pretence that
such person is or has been a slave, such person so
offending shall be imprisoned in the State prison not
less than one year nor more than fifteen and be
fined not exceeding $1,000. Among other resolutions
passed at the October session. 1855 by the Vermont
Legislature, it was resolved
THAT Vermont will continue to resist the admis-
sion of slave States into this Union, and the ex
tension OF slavery into the territories and now as
viii seek the abolition ofslaveFy at the national
capital and in all places under federal jurisdiction"
MAssACHUsETTs.-The acts of 1855, oh. 4s9, give
fugitive slaves all the rights of the bdbedS corpus
act no officer of the Commonwealth shall exercise
any authority under the Fugitive Slave Law, under
penalty of forfeting less than OOO and not ex-
ceeding 81 OOOfor every such offence and be imprs
oned notices. than one year and not exceeding two
years in the county Jail. By any person removing
or assisting in removing from the Commonwealth or
any person going into the Commonwea tn with inten
ton to remove or assist in removing Except the
MASTERY any fugitive slave shall be lie ed not less
than 81 OOO nor than $1,000, and by imprison-
ment in the State prison not less than more
thaa Eve years. By s Il the Governor shall ap-
point for every county, one or more commissioners,
learned in the law, whose duty it shall be when
any person in the State is arrested as fugitive
slave diligently and faithfully to use all lawful
means to protect defend and secure to such alleged
fugitive fair and impartial trial by ju y" By
l9, no Jail, prison other place of confinement
shall be used for the detention or Imprisonment of
any fugitive slave, or of any person accused or
convicted of Obstructng 7or resisting any process
issued by the officers of the United States to cap
ture or remove any fugitive slave. By resolutions
approved April 6, 1855, the Massachusetts, Legsla-
lature declared that the Fugitive Sla We Law is d.
rect violation of the tenth article of amendments to
the Constitutions" that sit is hostile alike to the pro-
visions of the national Constitution and to the die
tators of the Christian religion ntractOn equal
ly of the supreme law of the land and of the higher
law of God in consonance herewith :" also reso-
luton requesting the Senators and Representatives
in Congress to urge the prohibition of slavery from
all territories and from all parts of the national
domain under the control of Congress - second,
" to secure the ascendancy of principles of liberty
in the general government, to make freedom
tional andslavery sectional" In 1858 further resO
buttons denunciatOry of slavery and the bred Scott
decision were passed, among which was the follow
ing:
ReSolUed That all citizens of Massachusetts are
citizens of the United States that all negroes, not
aliens, dOmiciled within her limits are citizens of
and entitled to all the rights,
privileges and immunities of citizenship in the
courts of the United States and elsewhere.