Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law
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The Constitution is very clear and very plain inpointing out the way this question is to be settled. Article V. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life, libertyor property without due process of law. That Jim Gray is a person, isadmitted on all hands. Phillips admits it; the blood-hounds, marshalsand attorneys that hunt him, say he is a person--a person held toservice. The amount in dispute is the liberty and life-long toil of aman just entering into the full maturity of manhood. A gr...eat questionlies between these men. But Gray, standing on soil covered by thisConstitution, can be robbed of liberty, or the wages of his toil, onlyby due process of law. Article VII. Says, expressly, in suits at common law, when the valuein controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by juryshall be preserved. Here, sir, is a case involving the question ofliberty, and hundreds of dollars of money. The law, Sir, under which Iappear before you, overrides these plain provisions, and commits thiswhole question to one man, and offers him a bribe to trample right andliberty under foot.
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