SPEECH OF MR. NORVELL, OF MICHIGAN, OF THE BILL OF MR. CRITTENDEN TO PREVENT THE INTERFERENCE OF CERTIAN FEDERAL OFFICERS IN ELECTIONS |
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... written by James T. Austin, now the able Whig Attorney General of that State,
and the biographer of Mr. Gerry, I find these passages: Mr. Gerry entered upon
the office of Governor of Massachusetts twenty-nine years ago. At that time, says
his ...
... written by James T. Austin, now the able Whig Attorney General of that State,
and the biographer of Mr. Gerry, I find these passages: Mr. Gerry entered upon
the office of Governor of Massachusetts twenty-nine years ago. At that time, says
his ...
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If the Senator had not been in attentive, he would have heard it distinctly
announced, that the book which I have just laid down was the biography of
Elbridge Gerry, written by James T. Austin, the present attorney general of
Massachusetts.
If the Senator had not been in attentive, he would have heard it distinctly
announced, that the book which I have just laid down was the biography of
Elbridge Gerry, written by James T. Austin, the present attorney general of
Massachusetts.
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With regard to the Secretaries of Departments, the Attorney General, the District
Attorneys, the publishers of the laws, to say nothing of the members of this House
and the other, the very public men who possess the greatest powers, and can ...
With regard to the Secretaries of Departments, the Attorney General, the District
Attorneys, the publishers of the laws, to say nothing of the members of this House
and the other, the very public men who possess the greatest powers, and can ...
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J. Henderson, attorney for George W. Holmes.-Please to state if you know of any
person or persons taken to Cincinnati to vote at the State election held on the
13th of October last; and if you know any thing about it, state all you know in
relation ...
J. Henderson, attorney for George W. Holmes.-Please to state if you know of any
person or persons taken to Cincinnati to vote at the State election held on the
13th of October last; and if you know any thing about it, state all you know in
relation ...
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... of State officers to assist—that was his statement—in removal, by his master or
his agent or attorney, of his fugitive slave. ... the person to whom such labor or
serVice may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or
arrest ...
... of State officers to assist—that was his statement—in removal, by his master or
his agent or attorney, of his fugitive slave. ... the person to whom such labor or
serVice may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or
arrest ...
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ADDRESS OF CHARLES H. ALLEN TO THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LEGISLATURE OF PORTO ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1900 |
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Էջ 16 - Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said states, or territory, the person to whom such labor, or service, may be due, his 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 magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Էջ 16 - That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney, in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimant, his agent or attorney, 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, shall, for either of the said offences, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.
Էջ 16 - Historically, it is well known, that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, as property, in every state in the Union into which they might escape from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding states; and, indeed, was so vital to the preservation of their domestic...