| Maine. Legislature - 1843 - 1284 pages
...recovery of fugitive slaves. The constitution of the United States, article 4th, section 2d, provides that no person held to service, or labor in one State,...patty to whom such service or labor may be due. The petitioners contend that the delivering up is accomplished, and that requisition of the constitution... | |
| Joseph Story - Commentaries - 1846 - 1148 pages
...provisions of the Constitution and laws of the United States. In Article 4, Sec. 2, the Constitution declares, that no person held to service or labor...party, to whom such service or labor may be due. The law of Congress made in pursuance of this article, provides, that when any person held to labor in... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.). Citizens - Compromise of 1850 - 1850 - 98 pages
...3d paragraph of the 2d section of the 4th article of the Constitution of the United States, provides that " No person held to service or labor in one State,...party to whom such service or labor may be due." The wisest and best men, this country ever produced, in the days of its primitive purity, gave it their... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1853 - 536 pages
...the detention of any person claimed as a fugitive slave. into effect that article of the constitution of the United States which declares that " no person held to service or labor in one state, under tho laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1854 - 420 pages
...would have saved himself and us a good deal of trouble. The Constitution of the United States ordains, that " no person held to service or labor in one State...party to whom such service or labor may be due." The rule here is, that the civil constitution binds in all things not repugnant to natural justice or the... | |
| New York (State) - Session laws - 1855 - 1218 pages
...Assembly, recognize and have always respected the obligation of that prohibitory clause of the constitution of the United States, which declares that " no person held to service or labor in one state under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation... | |
| Virginia - 1856 - 622 pages
...slaveholding state would for a moment have ratified the constitution. The constitution provides expressly, " that no person held to service or labor in one state,...party to whom such service or labor may be due." The act of Massachusetts, in every paragraph, is intended by its framers avowedly to liberate, and expressly... | |
| James Pinkney Hambleton - History - 1856 - 550 pages
...recognize, and have always respected, the obligation of that prohibitory clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares that " no person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1642 pages
...affected and modified by the constitution and laws of the United States. In art. 4, ยง 2, the constitution declares that no person held to service or labor in...party to whom such service or labor may be due. The law of congress made in pursuance of this article provides, that when any person held to labor in any... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literature - 1885 - 612 pages
...would have saved himself and us a good deal of trouble. The constitution of the United States ordains, that " no person held to .service or labor in one...party to whom such service or labor may be due." The rule here is, that the civil constitution binds in all things not repugnant to natural justice or the... | |
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