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Nt6GlCrto, hat VIC NtsCiaiM all improper
interference in the due execution of the cx-
listing laws for the recovery OF fugitive slaves
or servants, and that those laws hitherto in
force in this State, are sufficiently pennal
and severe, and have been founded by ex
perience, to protect the rights of claimants
from other States, in the recovery of their
fugitive slaves as far as is compatible with
the constitutional rights of our citizens.


Resolved, therefore that the additional
law on the subject of fugitves from labour,
passed at the present session of the Legisla-
ture of this State, unsolicited and unasked
for BY our own peope--and merely at the
instigaton of a Delegation from MARYLAND,
is unnecessary, and for the following reasons
unjust. oppressive and unconstitutional
l. Because it authorizes persons to be ar
rested on mere suspicion, and to be carried
away from their neighborhood or district, to
a distant part of the County or State, where
unknown and fricndess, the question to their
right to freedom, is to be examined and f.
nally determined by the decision of single
individual


2. Because it makes no discrimination be-
tween the unconscious, unintentional Offend
er, and the guilty, who violates the law by
design and preconcerted purpose.
g. Because it Imposes heavy penalty
where no overt act is committed, and where
the only offence is a suhho&ed intention to iu-
terfere in opposing the execution of the law.
| 4. because its penalties are excessive and
unusual; tlisproportioned to the offence com
mittetl, and greatly beyond what is necessa-
ry for, the attainment OF public justice, or the
security of private rights.


S, Because it exposes our citizens to vex-
| atious prosecutions, on the most fimsy pre-
tences, and to the loss rot only of their prop
erty, but to confinement in jails; and more
especially the numerous and useful class
who navigate our waters and it opens, more
over, a wide door to the cruel and odions
practice Of kidnapping, and thus jeopardizes
the liberty Of 5000 OF the free co!ored pop
ulation Of the State.


Pes3lrcd, therefore, that d law containing
so u,anv oaiectonal features. and wholly an
called for from the people Of this State, man
ifests degree Of subseryiencv, On the part
OF the Legislature, to the wishes and inter-
csts Of another republic, altogether incom-
patih!e with the rights Of be. citizens, and
with the duty which the Legislature owet
to their constituents


Rra1ieea, further, THAT The inhabitants o
other parts Of the State bc, and they arc
hereby invited to CO operate with us, III tht
use Of all constitutional means, to rescue
our common rights, and property, from tht
jeopardy into wlicli they are thus thrown
Nv an imbecilc act Of legislation, and to rc
deem the claracter OF the state, from tha
i degradation which such proceedings came
fail to fix upon it, i'll the eyes OF The world.
! Re8ot0ed, That these proceedings be pub
lished iii all the papers III this state.


JAMES CANBY. Chairman.


G. P. BgSSgTT, iStc'y.