...the case is now here for our examination and decision. The last clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States, declares that, " No person held to service or labour in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law...

...foot upon British soil,' might be inforced in the free States to the prejudice of the slaveholder, "that no person held to service or labor in one State,...party to whom such service or labor may be due." And, still further, no amendment of the constitution was permitted prior to the year 1808, so as to prohibit...

...pretences ( of the antislavery party, and discern the motives by which they were actually governed. The constitution of the United 'States declares that " 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...

...Bible, the Constitution, and laws of our country guarantee to us, and to our children. Act iv. sec. 2, of the Constitution of the United States, declares that, — "No person held to labor or service in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, ill consequence...

...among the nations of the earth. In the second section, fourth subdivision, it is solemnly stipulated that — No person held to service or labor in one...party to whom such service or labor may be due. And here mark : nearly all the high contracting parties had in their domains slaves or persons held to...

...law, nor that the defendant knew him to be lawfully held to service. The 2d Section of the 4th Article of the Constitution of the United States declares, that " no person held to service or labor in any State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation...

...law, nor that the defendant knew him to be lawfully held to service. The 2d Section of the 4th Article of the Constitution of the United States declares, that " no person -held to seryice or labor in any State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of...

...Constitution of the United States recognizes no such right. The provision in the latter instrument, which declares that " no person held to service or labor...party to whom such service or labor may be due," and the acts of Congress, passed in pursuance thereof, are unquestionably of binding force upon the people...

...Mr. WICKLIFFE offered the following preamble arid resolutions: The second section of the 4th article of the Constitution of the United States declares, '* that 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...

...obligations it imposes, or to render it valueless by legislative The second section of the 4th article of the Constitution of the United States declares, "that 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...