Fugitive Slaves Part 6

[Footnote 131: Life of Gerrit Smith, 115.]

[Footnote 132: Liberator, Jan. 22, 1861.]

[Footnote 133: Von Holst, II. 312; Calhoun, III. 9, 464, 486; Senate Docs., 25 Cong. 3 Sess., No. 216.]

[Footnote 134: Wilson, Slave Power, I. 439-442; Congressional Globe, XIV. 50.]

[Footnote 135: Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, 252, 253; Von Holst, Calhoun, 204-209.]

[Footnote 136: House Docs., 27 Cong. 2 Sess., V., No. 242; Congressional Globe, XIV. 50.]

[Footnote 137: Senate Docs., 26 Cong. 1 Sess., III., No. 11.]

[Footnote 138: Congressional Globe, XIV. 80, 113-118; Calhoun, III. 462; Appendix B, No. 20.]

[Footnote 139: Senate Docs., 27 Cong. 1 Sess., II., No. 51.]

[Footnote 140: Cobbett's Case, 47; Dana's Wheaton, note 62; cf. Appendix B, No. 23.]

[Footnote 141: Lawrence's Wheaton, 207, n.]

[Footnote 142: Von Holst, I. 321, 322; Opinions of the Attorney Generals, III. 484; 15 Peters, 518.]

[Footnote 143: R. Smedley, Underground Railroad, 26.]

[Footnote 144: See _post_, ---- 71-76.]

[Footnote 145: See _post_, -- 38.]

[Footnote 146: Appendix B, No. 22; 16 Peters, 957; Report of Case of Edward Prigg, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 202; Bledsoe, Liberty and Slavery, 355; J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 69.]

[Footnote 147: _Post_, ---- 78, 79.]

[Footnote 148: _Post_, ---- 34, 41, 42.]

[Footnote 149: Senate Journal, 30 Cong., 1 Sess., 59; Congressional Globe, 51.]

[Footnote 150: Senate Journal, 30 Cong., 1 Sess., 313; Congressional Globe, 722.]

[Footnote 151: Senate Journal, 30 Cong. 1 Sess., 313; Congressional Globe, 722.]

[Footnote 152: Appendix B, No. 29.]

[Footnote 153: Appendix B, Nos. 25, 27, 28.]

[Footnote 154: Appendix B, No. 26.]

[Footnote 155: Appendix B, No. 30. In this number of the Appendix is a summary of the legislative history of the measure, from the introduction of Mason's bill, Jan. 4, 1850, to the signature of the act by President Fillmore, Sept. 18, 1850, with references to the records of Congress.]

[Footnote 156: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 236.]

[Footnote 157: Senate Journal, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 118.]

[Footnote 158: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 248; Appendix B, No. 68. The test vote in the House stood as follows:--

States. For. Against. Not Total.

voting.

New England States 7 15 10 32

Middle States 9 33 21 63

Interior and Pacific States 16 27 8 51 -- -- -- --- Total, Free States 32 75 39 146

Border Slave States 32 0 6 38

Planter States 45 0 9 54 -- -- -- --- Total, Slave States 77 0 15 92

--- -- -- --- Total 109 75 54 238]

[Footnote 159: Appendix B, Nos. 83, 84. For general discussions of the act, see Von Holst, III. 548-557, IV. 9-12, 20-29; Wilson, Slave Power, II. 302-329; Greeley, American Conflict, I. 210-221; Cooley's Story, -- 1921; Lalor's Cyclopaedia, II. 315-317; Bryant and Gay, U. S., IV.

397-401.]

[Footnote 160: For the text of the act, see Appendix B, No. 31.]

[Footnote 161: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 1610.]

[Footnote 162: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 1583.]

[Footnote 163: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 2 Sess., Appendix, 1051.]

[Footnote 164: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 2 Sess., Appendix, 1622.]

[Footnote 165: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 79.]

[Footnote 166: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., 78.]

[Footnote 167: Von Holst, III. 493.]

[Footnote 168: Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 1597.]

CHAPTER III.

_PRINc.i.p.aL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860._

-- 33. Change in character of cases.