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Personal Liberty And Democracy

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
February
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Committec on Federal Relations, 'm the House, throiigh their cbairman, Mr. Schoolcraft, Iiave reported ügáihst the prayer of the petitioners for an act to prohibit the ue of öiir gálls to slave-catchers, and prohibting state magistraten from under the aw of 1793. They assign sundry reasons, which may be stated substantially as follows: 1. That out of the 50,000 legal voters of Michigan, on!y 525 ''purport" to have sigriëd tliese petitions. L, That they came from only six out of the 30 counties of the State. 3. The Committee bolieve that only "very few" of rhe petitionors ever read the act of Congrcsg of 1703, or l.he clnuse in the Constjtuüon in pursuance of which it was passed, or the decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court. 4. Such a law as the petitioners ask vvould be "a norfect niillitv."1 . 5. It would be ua direct infraction of the U. S. Constitution." 6. It would be "a gross disobedicnce of a constitucional act of Coucrress." It would "Iead to a dissolution of the Cunfederacy." 8. It is rot dcsirable to encouragerunaway slaves to sottle in Michigan, whero they would commit crimes, and then run away to Canadn. 9. Ve shouidinciir "odium in the estimation of many of our sister Stntes, by a positive encourogement and bounty to their runaway slnvep." 10. The blacks of the South onght notto (be placed on a footinor with the white laborers of thisfree State"!!! We inteod to publish the report as soon as we can find room. What will the Democracy of Vermont and Massaclmsetts say to these numeróos and cogent arguments, most o; which are framed ngainst the laws which they pnssed almost nnanimously? Our Michigan Democracy denies Citizpnship and Equal Right8 to at leaU three fifths of the human raec!Mr. Wm. Ylaït, nnti-slavery Agent, ocknowlcdges the receipt of the following sums: At Scio, $1,12; at Farmington, $1,00: G. Tibbitts, 25 ets; E. S. Fish, 50 cts; D.Reed, 50 cfs; J. Pratt, 50 cents; J. W. Kíng, 2. Total, $5,87. 05 Gen. Düff Green has returned from England, and has commenced a nevv paper in New York, called The Republic." It advocates Free Trade.

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