KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY;1866 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... agent or attorney , is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor , and to take him or her before any judge of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States , residing or being within the State , or before any ...
... agent or attorney , is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor , and to take him or her before any judge of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States , residing or being within the State , or before any ...
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such fugitive from such claimant , his agent or attor- ney , when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared , or shall harbor or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor as aforesaid ...
such fugitive from such claimant , his agent or attor- ney , when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared , or shall harbor or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor as aforesaid ...
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... agent or attorney , duly authorized by power of attorney , in writing acknowledged and certified under the seal of some legal officer or court of the State or Territory in which the same may be executed , may pursue and reclaim such ...
... agent or attorney , duly authorized by power of attorney , in writing acknowledged and certified under the seal of some legal officer or court of the State or Territory in which the same may be executed , may pursue and reclaim such ...
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... agent or attorney , a certifi- cate setting forth the substantial facts as to the service or labor due from such fugitive to the claim- ant , and of his or her escape from the State or Territory in which such service or labor was due to ...
... agent or attorney , a certifi- cate setting forth the substantial facts as to the service or labor due from such fugitive to the claim- ant , and of his or her escape from the State or Territory in which such service or labor was due to ...
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Page 51 - 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 94 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Page 20 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Page 27 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 74 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 99 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 225 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 224 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 89 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 35 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.