...let Judge Story answer that question. In the case already referred to, he said: "Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure...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...

...referred to, his judgment is full and instructive. He uses the following language: "Historically, it is well known 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...

...must, therefore, be interpreted with reference to the evil which it proposed to remedy. Its object was to secure to the citizens of the slave-holding...from the State where they were held in servitude, to guard against the principles and doctrines prevalent in the non-slave holding States, by preventing...

...Supreme Court of the United States. In one of his decisions]- Judge Story said : "Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure...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." . ....

...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...

...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...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...

...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...

...which is thus expressed by the late and lamented Justice Story : " The object of this clause Avas ' to secure to the citizens of the slave-holding states...from the state where they were held in servitude/ " If this opinion be adopted, the very shadow of analogy between the two constitutional powers will...

...Eastern and Middle States, to the peculiar interests of the South. Again : — Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure...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...