Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1842: In Which It Was Decided That All the Laws of the Several States Relative to Fugitive Slaves
Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1842: In Which It Was Decided That All the Laws of the Several States Relative to Fugitive Slaves
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... Prigg v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. and evil example, as they certainly may do in cases of idlers, vagabonds, and paupers. The rights of the owners of fugitive slaves, are in no just sense interfered with or regulated by such a course; and in many cases they may be promoted by the exercise of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... Prigg v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. and evil example, as they certainly may do in cases of idlers, vagabonds, and paupers. The rights of the owners of fugitive slaves, are in no just sense interfered with or regulated by such a course; and in many cases they may be promoted by the exercise of the police power. Such regulations can never be permitted to interfere with or obstruct the just rights of the owner to reclaim his slave derived from the Constitution of the United States, or with the remedies prescribed by Congress to aid and enforce the same. The act of the legislature of Pennsylvania upon which the indictment against Edward Prigg is founded, is unconstitutional and void. It purports to punish as a public offence against the state, the very act of seizing and removing a slave by his master, which the Constitution of the United States was designed to justify and uphold. IN error to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The defendant in error, Edward Prigg, with Nathan S. Bemis, Jacob Forward, and Stephen Lewis, Jr., were indicted by the Grand Jury of York county, Pennsylvania, for that, on the first day of April, 1837, upon a certain negro woman named Margaret Morgan, with force and violence they made an assault, and with force and violence feloniously did take and carry her away from the county of York, within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the state of Maryland, with a design and intention there to sell and dispose of the said Margaret Morgan, as and for a slave and servant for life. Edward Prigg, one of the defendants, having been arraigned, pleaded not guilty. The cause was tried before the Court of Quarter Sessions of York county, on the 22d day of May, 1839; and the jury found the following special verdict: "That at...
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