Five Hundred Thousand Strokes for Freedom ; a Series of Anti-Slavery Tracts
Five Hundred Thousand Strokes for Freedom ; a Series of Anti-Slavery Tracts
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M And further, that they — " Will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or colour the attempt may be made." Nor Were the Democrats alone ; the Whigs at the same place agreed to a resolution almost equally infamous.
But we give an outline of the Bill. From that it will appear how it tramples on human rights, how it arms the slave-owner with terrible and irresponsible power, and deprives the slave of all chance of es...cape :*— " Marshals and deputies ore required to execute all warrants and precepts, or other process, for the arrest and detention of fugitives, under penalty of a fine of 1000 dollars for the use of the claimant of such fugitive; and in case of the escape of such fugitive from the custody of a marshal, whether with or without his knowledge and connivance, the said marshal is to be liable, to a prosecution for the full value of the said fugitive.
" Any person who shall knowingly hinder the arrest of a, fugitive, or attempt to rescue him after arrest, or assist such fugitive, directly or indirectly, to escape, or harbour or conceal him, after notice or knowledge of the fact that he was a fugi- tive, shall be liable to a fine of 1000 dollars, and six months' imprisonment, by conviction before the proper district or territorial courts, and to a suit for damages of 1000 dol- lars for each fugitive lost to his owner by said obstruction or rescue, the same to be recovered by action of debt in any of the courts aforesaid." Such are the provisions of the bill.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
M And further, that they — " Will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or colour the attempt may be made." Nor Were the Democrats alone ; the Whigs at the same place agreed to a resolution almost equally infamous.
But we give an outline of the Bill. From that it will appear how it tramples on human rights, how it arms the slave-owner with terrible and irresponsible power, and deprives the slave of all chance of es...cape :*— " Marshals and deputies ore required to execute all warrants and precepts, or other process, for the arrest and detention of fugitives, under penalty of a fine of 1000 dollars for the use of the claimant of such fugitive; and in case of the escape of such fugitive from the custody of a marshal, whether with or without his knowledge and connivance, the said marshal is to be liable, to a prosecution for the full value of the said fugitive.
" Any person who shall knowingly hinder the arrest of a, fugitive, or attempt to rescue him after arrest, or assist such fugitive, directly or indirectly, to escape, or harbour or conceal him, after notice or knowledge of the fact that he was a fugi- tive, shall be liable to a fine of 1000 dollars, and six months' imprisonment, by conviction before the proper district or territorial courts, and to a suit for damages of 1000 dol- lars for each fugitive lost to his owner by said obstruction or rescue, the same to be recovered by action of debt in any of the courts aforesaid." Such are the provisions of the bill.
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