Letter From Citizens Of Newburyport Mass To Mr Webster

Author : Daniel Webster
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ISBN 13 : 9781331383871
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Letter From Citizens of Newburyport, Mass;, To Mr. Webster written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letter From Citizens of Newburyport, Mass;, To Mr. Webster: In Relation to His Speech Delivered in the Senate of the United States on the 7th March, 1850, and Mr. Webster's Reply The Constitution of the United States, in the 2d section of the 4th article, declares: "A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, en demand of this executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime. "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 provision of the Constitution seems to have met with little exception or opposition, or none at all, so far as I know, in Massachusetts. Every body seems to have regarded it as necessary and proper. The members of the convention of that State for adopting the Constitution were particularly jealous of every article and section, which might in any degree entrench on personal liberty. Every page of their debates evinces this spirit. And yet I do not remember, that any one of them found the least fault with this provision. The opponents and deriders of the Constitution, of this day, have sharper eyes in discerning dangers to liberty, than General Thompson, Holder Slocum, and Major Nason had, in 1788; to say nothing of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and others, friends of the Constitution; and among them the very eminent men who were delegates in that Convention from Newburyport: Rufus King, Benjamin Greenleaf, Theophilus Parsons, and Jonathan Tilcomb. The latter clause, quoted above, it may be worth while to remark, was borrowed, in substance, from the celebrated Ordinance of 1787, which was drawn up by that great man of your own county, and a contemporary of your fathers, Nathan Dane. Mr. Dane had very venerable New England authority for the insertion of this provision in the ordinance which he prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.