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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 2: the Irish address.—1842. (search)
o see what effect this unlimited license to kidnappers (in which the Massachusetts Justice, Joseph Story, concurred) had in determining Mr. Garrison and his followers to repudiate once for all a Union thus given over to the dominion of slaveholders. The Court's admission that States might prohibit their own magistrates from assisting in the execution of the law, was destined to furnish a basis for such legislation in many Northern States, e. g., the Massachusetts Personal Liberty Law of March 24, 1843 (Lib. 23: 66, 74). and slavery is declared to be the supreme law of the land; from which decision there is no appeal to any higher judicatory, except to the people on the ground of revolutionary necessity; And whereas, to reverence justice, to cherish liberty, and to promote righteousness, are the primary duties of every people, from the performance of which they cannot innocently escape by any compact or form of government; therefore, 1. Resolved, That the consequences of doing ri
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
ously with this advertisement, that the State washed its official hands of all complicity in the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, came the passage of An Act to protect the rights and liberties of the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lib. 25.71, 79; Acts and Resolves of Mass., p. 924. This, too, was in response to petitions and arguments from the abolitionists, with Wendell Phillips again at the front. It was an extension Lib. 25: [6], 36. of the Personal Liberty Act of March 24, 1843, to the Ante, p. 92. Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Habeas corpus was secured to Lib. 25.71. the alleged fugitive; no confessions of his were admissible, but the burden of proof was to be upon the claimant, and no ex-parte affidavit should be received. For a State office-holder to issue a warrant under the law was tantamount to resignation; for an attorney to assist the claimant was to forfeit his right to practise in the courts; for a judge to do either was to make himself liable to im