...service or labor ;" and the same care is observable iu the Act of Congress dated February 12th, 1793, " respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." In point of fact, the grand principle, that the property of man in man cannot exist de jure, had been...

...service or labor ;" and the same care is observable in the Act of Congress dated February 12th, 1793, " respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." In point of fact, the grand principle, that the property of man in man cannot exist de jure, had been...

...the commonwealth from taking cognizance of any case under the Act of Congress of February 12, 1793, entitled " An Act respecting fugitives from justice...persons escaping from the service of their masters ;'' and also prohibits any sheriff, constable, &c. from arresting, or detaining in any jail or other...

...February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. [Prigg ». The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.] entitled "An act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters ;" nor shall any alderman or justice of the peace of this commonwealth issue or grant any certificate...

...special verdict; and referring to the provisions of the act of Congress of the 12th of February, 1793, respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters, and to the several sections of the Pennsylvania law of the 25th of March, 1826, which had given rise...

...to this event. AKT. VIII. — THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. AN ACT to amend and supplementary to the Act entitled " An Act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters," approved, February 12, 1793. AMONG the measures passed toward the close of the late session of Congress,...

...to this event. Aar. VIII. — THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. AN ACT to amend and supplementary to the Act entitled " An Act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters" approved, February 12, 1793. AMONG the measures passed toward the close of the late session of Congress,...

...limits, between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty. — Laws of Florida, p. 111. An act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters. — Story's Laws of the US, v. l,p.284. An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records...

...worked through the opposition of North and South in disjointed fragments— was a Bill to amend the act entitled " An act respecting fugitives from justice,...persons escaping from the service of their masters." This act is familiarly called the Fugitive Slave Law, yet the term slave or slavery does not once occur...

...WAsHINGToN. Nor has it, as the committee are informed, ever been proposed in Congress to repeal it. It is "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters." The third section provides that when any person held to labor in any of the states, under their laws,...