The Underground Railroad from Slavery to FreedomMacmillan, 1898 - 478 pages |
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abduction abolitionists agent Anti-Slavery Society April arrest border Boston Calvin Fairbank Canada West Canadian Charles Chicago church Cincinnati Circuit Court claimant colored Congress Constitution County David Detroit District Douglass escaped slaves Firelands Pioneer friends fugi Fugitive Slave Law George Gerrit Smith ground Railroad 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 Massachusetts 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 settlers Slave Power slaveholding Slavery in Canada Smedley Smith South Southern stations Supreme Court 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 345 - 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 321 - 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 348 - 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...
Page 345 - Justice of the executive authority of any state or 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...
Page 339 - 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 351 - ... with such other fees as may be deemed reasonable by such commissioner for such other additional services as may be necessarily performed by him or them, such as attending at the examination, keeping the...
Page 349 - 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...
Page 346 - ... given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear. — But if no such agent shall appear within six months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged. And all costs or expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, and transmitting such fugitive to the state or territory making such demand, shall be paid by such state or territory.
Page 257 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 348 - United States and the superior courts of the Territories of the United States, from time to time, to increase the number of commissioners, so as to afford a speedy and convenient means for the arrest and examination of persons charged with a violation of this act.