Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Consider So Much of the Governor's Message As Relates to the Murder of Edward Gorsuch, And the Trial of the Treason Case in Philadelphia 1852
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This mon- strous assumption strikes at the very principle of the right of re- capture, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and 13 utterly subversive of the doctrines advanced by that eminent jurist, .Judge Story, in the case of "Prigg vs. the State of Penn- sylvania," in 16 Peters, 6 IS, and ^vhich has been so ably com- 12 mented upon by Attorney General Brent, in his report of the trial of Hanway. What owner of a " fut,fitive from service or labor/' after the awful tra'^edy at... Christiana, and the mockery of justice that marked the trial of its authors, would be willing to risk the chances of his re-capture during the hours of day ? His very appearance would be the signal for the secretion ot tlie slave, so as effectually to secure hirn against re-capture, or if it better comported with the feelings of the fugitive and his harborers, they could at once " by the blowing of horns," or other pre-con- certed signals, summon their trained bands of desperados, and make the hapless owner pay with his life the forfeit of his temer- ity.
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