The Life of John J. Crittenden: With Selections from His Correspondence and Speeches, Bind 1Mrs. Chapman Coleman J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 |
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Side 378 - then, in conclusion, proceeds as follows: " The certificates in this and the first section mentioned, shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped, and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever.
Side 330 - the governor, from time to time, to give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall deem
Side 335 - cannot be a slave country! We have only the point of honor to serve, and this will serve it and rescue the country from all danger of agitation. The Southern Whigs are now nearly unanimous in favor of it, and will be wholly so before the vote is taken. We know nothing of
Side 222 - can lose nothing by the result. Success could have added nothing to your name, and nothing I believe to your happiness. You occupy now, but too truly, the position described as presenting the noblest of human spectacles,— " A great man struggling with the storms of fate, And nobly falling with a falling State.
Side 378 - if, upon such hearing, the claimant, by the requisite proof, shall, establish his claim to the satisfaction of the tribunal thus constituted, the said tribunal shall give him a certificate, stating therein the substantial facts of the case, and authorizing him, with such reasonable force as may be necessary, to take and carry said fugitive back to the State or Territory whence he or she may have
Side 222 - Clay.) FRANKFORT, November 13, 1844. MY DEAR SIR,—The intelligence brought to us this morning has terminated all our hopes, our suspense, and our anxieties, in respect to the presidential election. We now know the worst. Polk is elected, and your friends have sustained the heaviest blow that could have befallen them. You will,
Side 380 - The condition of one in custody as a fugitive slave is, under this law, so far as respects the writ of habeas corpus, precisely the same as that of all other prisoners under the laws of the United States. The " privilege" of that writ remains alike to all of them, but to be judged of—granted or
Side 335 - that the union of the South was neither possible nor desirable until we were ready to dissolve the Union. That we certainly did not intend to advise the people now to look anywhere else than to their own government for the prevention of apprehended evils. That we did not expect an administration which we had brought into power would do
Side 250 - instant, and submitted it to the President. He requests me to inform you that it is not within the arrangements for conducting the campaign in Mexico to supersede General Taylor in his present command by assigning you to it. I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, WL MARCY, Secretary of War.
Side 378 - Court of the United States has decided that the owner, independent of any aid from State or national legislation, may, in virtue of the Constitution, and his own right of property, seize and recapture his fugitive slave in whatsoever State he may find him, and carry him back to the State or Territory from which he escaped. (Prigg vs.