The Underground Railroad from Slavery to FreedomMacmillan Company, 1898 - 478 pages |
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abduction abolitionists agent Anti-Slavery Society APPENDIX arrest border Boston Calvin Fairbank Canada West Canadian Charles Chicago church Cincinnati claimant colored Congress Constitution County David Detroit District escaped slaves Frederick Douglass friends fugi Fugitive Slave Law George Gerrit Smith harboring Harriet Henry History Ibid Illinois Indiana Iowa Isaac James John Brown Joseph Josiah Henson Judge Kentucky labor Lake large number Letter Levi Coffin Lewis liberty lines M. G. McDougall Massachusetts master Missouri negroes North North-Side View Northern Oberlin Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Ohio party Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia Prosecution Quakers Refugees from Slavery Reminiscences Reports rescue Rise and Fall River Robert routes runaways Samuel settlement settlers Slave Power slaveholding Slavery in Canada Smedley Smith South Southern stations territory Theodore Parker Thomas tion tives trial Underground Railroad Underground Railroad Records Underground Road United Vigilance Committee Virginia Washington Western William Wilson York
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Page 363 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 364 - Territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the Governor or Chief Magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the person so charged has fled, it shall be the duty of the Executive authority of the State or Territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and...
Page 333 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 367 - Constitution referred to, in conformity with the provisions of this act; and all good citizens are hereby commanded to aid and assist in the prompt and efficient execution of this law, whenever their services may be required...
Page 366 - ... execute all warrants and precepts issued under the provisions of this act, when to them directed; and should any marshal or deputy marshal refuse to receive such warrant, or other process, when tendered, or to use all proper means diligently to execute the...
Page 368 - ... shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted, to remove such fugitive to the state or territory from which he escaped, and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever.
Page 367 - That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States, has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States, the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due, or his, her, or their agent or attorney...
Page 369 - ... in all cases where the proceedings are before a commissioner, he shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars...
Page 357 - The duty of protecting this right in all the common territories throughout their territorial existence, and until they shall be admitted as States into the Union, with or without slavery, as their Constitutions may prescribe. 3. A like recognition of the right of the master to have his slave, who has escaped from one State to another, restored and
Page 365 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...