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York refuses to deliver him up. New York, while so refusing admits that if the person is charged with a crime he ought to be delivered up: and she admits that stealing property is a crime. But the ground of her refusal is that nothing was stolen except a person held as a slave, and that a person held as a slave is not property by the laws of New York.

We trust that it is not yet come to this, that New York shall be told in vain that she herself has said, persons held in Virginia as slaves sballshall [sic] be recognized as property. We trust it is not too late to remind her, that she has so said in a Constitution which she agreed should be her supreme law, and which she declared the members of her state legislature, and all her executive and judicial officers, should be solemnly pledged to support. C. R.