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mea, is precisely anaiagous 10 one of the modes prescribed by the act of 1850; the only difference between them being the more elevated character of the tribunal “in the jurisdiction out of which tho servant fled/' before which the proof is now made, and the greater caution in tho proceedings. It is presumed that the subjects of this compact between the Colonies, were rather white servants and apprentices than negro slaves, who, in 1643, were very few in number. It was very common in those early times, more than at present, for master mechanics to take indentured apprentices, who, if i hey absconded, were (and now are) liable to be arrested and returned to their maulers,-as persons held to labor or service in the State whence they fled.The same rule prevails now in regard to white fugitives which was adopted by the early Puritans, and is applied by the fugitiveslave law to fugitive slaves. Yet the Abolitionists would see the Union dissolved rather than apply the same rule to runaway blacks to which runawayU’ltllii tnnti m ra liilnn/ilnil !
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Washington Sentinel
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Sat, Aug 02, 1856
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