Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-12-17

declare, represent, or pretends that any free
person entitled 70 freedoms is a slave or owes
FerSice or laoof TO any person or persons,
procuring the forcible removal of sueb free
person iron this State as slave, shall paw
me OF $4,000 and be imprisoned 1--WE years in
Inc Sonneclent- State prison; requires two
witnesses to prove that any person is slave
or owes labor; >denounces- penalty of So
uoo against any person seizing or causing to
ee ssizsd azy FREE person with intent to re-
duce Nm 70 slavery; dispositions not TO be
falsely liable to SIS 600 fine and five years
imprisonment.
II RHODE ISLAND.--.-----
This State by her legislation forbids the
carrying away Of any person by force cut of.
the State; forbids any Judge. Justice, maeis-.
trate, or court from officially aiding in the
arrest of fugitive slave under the fugitive
slave law of 1888 or 1850; forbIds any
sheriff or other officer from arresting or de-
tanning any person claimed as fugitive
slave; provides a penalty of $500, or impri-
sonment not exceeding sly months for VIOLA
ting the act, denies the nse of her jails to
the United States for the detention of .fugi-
80 NEW YORK.
The State of New York has passed no laws
having relation to the United States fugitive
slave act of 1850. Though pressed frequently
upon the Legislature, they have always fail
ed of adoption. The old and obsolete act of
1910. entitled AN act to extend the right of
trial by jury extends the trial by jury to
the cases of persons arrested as fugitive
slaves; but in the fourth edition of the laws
of the State, as prepared and published by
u.
OF the Court of Appeals, may be found APP
pended to the chapter containing this law the
following not
s'An oct to Etteadt the Riqht o.. Trial by Jury,
passed May, 9Th, 1840.-The decision of the
Supreme Court OF the United States, in Prigg
Us. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 16
Peters R. $50, establishes the doctrine that
all State laws calculated to interfere with
the third subdivision of section 2. article 4,
of the Constitution of the United States are
unconstitutional. Since that decision the
fugitive slave law laws of Congress, 1850,
chap. 60) has been passed, containing proyi-
sions repugnant to the whole of this act. 1t
is therefore of no force; but, as it never has
been repealed, it is here inserted . da
NEW JERSEY. gzL1 sd
The State of New Jersey has no statutes
bearing on this subject save those which en-
join on her State officers the duty of aiding
in. the recovery of fugitive slaves. Persons
temporarily residing in the State are also per-
mitted to bring with them and retain their
domestic slaves.
PENNSYLVANIA. s "a b.
The State of Pennsylvania has not form
ally and specially legislated at all against
the United States fugitive slave law of 1850,
though there was an old statute of 1S47
which prohibited any judge, justice of The
nr old from ia III
of the case. Of any fugitive from labor, .'un-
der a certain act of Congress passed on the
18th day of February, 1893" During the
last session of her Legislature the Commits
sioners appointed to revise and amend the
Penal Laws of Pennsylvania John G. Knox,
Edward King, and David Webster) made q
report tosthe Legislature that they had COM |
pleted their labors, and the result was pre- |
sented in the shape of bill entitled Gan |
act to consolidate, revise, and amend the |
Penal Laws of this Commonwealth" That |
report, on the thirty-first day of March, 1860. |
was enacted into a law, aud by the ninety /
fifth section IL enacted as follows: - 4 ?
''No Judge of any of the Courts of this
nor any Alderman or JUS
tice of the Peace of said Commonwealth.
shall have jurisdiction OF take cognizance of
the case of any fugitive from labor from any
of the United States or Territories under
any act of Congress, nor shall any such
Judge, Alderman. or Justice of the Peace of
this Commonwealth issue or grant any GER
tifcate. or warrant of removal of any such |
fugitive from labor, under any act of Con-
gress; and if any Alderman or Justice of the
Peace of this Commonwealth shall take cog
nizance or jurisdiction of the case of any
such fugitive, or shall grant or issue any GER
lificate or warrant of removal, as aforesaid,
then, and in either case, he shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor i'll Office. and shall,
On conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay.
1t the discretion of the Court, any sum not
one thousand dollars, the one-half
to the party prosecuting for the same, and
the other half to the use of the Common
Wealth. ne
The theory of this law, it will be seen, is
founded strictly on the decision of the Su-
prerhe Court of the United States in the
Prigg case, and does not interfere with the
of the Commissioner appointed un-t
der the United States law A -
MICHIGAN.
The law of this State requires States At
;orneys to act as counsel for fugitive slaves;
secures to persons arrested as fugitive slaves
he benefits of the writsof habeas corpus, and
rial by jury; denies use of State jails for
detention of alleged flu gitiyes; equires that
IDENTIFY of fugitive slaves shall be proved
,y two. credible witnesses, or by legal evil
IF not less than five hundred nor more than
me thousand dollars, and Imprisonment in
State prison for five years, for iorcibly seiz-