...Constitution? I will let Judge Story answer that question. In the case already referred to, he said: "Historically, it is well known that the object of...their slaves, as property, in every State in the Union in which they might escape from the State where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of...

...points, the judgment below. Upon. the point just referred to, his judgment is full and instructive. He uses the following language: "Historically, it is...that the object of this clause was to secure to the slaveholding States the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, as property, in every...

...learned judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. In one of his decisions]- Judge Story said : "Historically, it is well known that the object of...ownership in their slaves, as property, in every State of the Union, into which they might escape from the State wherein they were held in servitude." . ....

...United States. In the case of Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Judge Story said : " Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholdinc States the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves as property, in every...

...vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Judge Story, who delivered the opinion of the Court, said : " It is well known that the object of this clause was...ownership in their slaves, as property, in every State of the Union, into which they might escape from the State wherein they were held in servitude." Again...

...vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Judge Story, who delivered the opinion of the Court, said : " It is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to tbe citizens of the slaveholding States the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves,...

...slavery. How is it, then, that after a lapse of some sixty years, it is now held that the object of the clause was, " to secure to the citizens of the slave-holding...title of ownership in their slaves, as property." I humbly ask this court to reconsider the principles thus promulgated, to disclaim a construction that...

...be found, made by the Eastern and Middle States, to the peculiar interests of the South. Again : — Historically, it is well known that the object of...complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, aa property, in every State in the Union into which they might escape from the State where they were...

...labor In one ptate, escaping into another, wts to secure to tho citizens of the filavebolding rtatee American party. May we not then assume, from the fact that he sanctioned them, of the Union, into which they might escape from the state where they were held In servitude. "The full...

...of the fourth article. Its first proposition, and one that underlies its whole reasoning is, that, " Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the slaveholder the complete right and title to their slaves as property m every State into which they...