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taken from among us ; and to this resolve we pledge 

 our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." 



The Constitution of the United States, (Art. 4, 

 Sec. 2) provides that " No person, held to service 

 or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping 

 into another, shall, in consequence of any law or 

 regulation therein, be discharged from such service or 

 labor ; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party 

 to whom such service or labor may be due. " This is 

 the only clause which provides for the return of 

 persons held to service or labor. Some contend that 

 it refers to apprentices and servants generally, and 

 not particularly to slaves. The Constitution of the 

 United States, however, provides for a fair and im- 

 partial trial by jury, which right is denied by the 

 infamous Fugitive Slave Law. 



One could hardly believe that in America, " the 

 home of the brave, and the land of the free,'* he 

 would read in the New Orleans papers advertisements 

 of Sheriffs' sales of property, among which are four 

 lots of slaves : — one lot containing one hundred and 

 seventy-eight slaves, men, women and children, rang- 

 ing from two years old to mature age ; to be sold 

 with the estates on which they work, without reserve, 

 to the highest bidder in the New Orleans market. 

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