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when, before the expiration of the first .year, the Legislature of Georgia, by solemn act, a copy of which I have now before me, "approved" by Wilson Lumpkin, Governor, appropriated $5000 "to be paid to any person who shall arrest, bring to trial, and prosecute to conviction under the laws of this State, the editor or publisher of a certain paper called the Liberator, published at the town of Boston and State of Massachusetts." This infamous legislative act touching a person absolutely

tion of Georgia,

and

in

no way amenable

beyond the jurisdic-

to its laws, constituted

a plain bribe to the gangs of kidnappers engendered by Slavery. With this barefaced defiance of justice and decency Slave-masters inaugurated the system of violence by which they have sought to

crush every voice that has been raised against Slavery. Free 2. Here is another illustration of a different character. according and, to the Massachusetts, of citizens persons of color, equal entitled to privileges Commonwealth, institutions of this

with other

citizens,

being in service as mariners, and touching

at the port of Charleston, in South-Carolina, have been seized, and with no allegation against them, except of entering this

port in the discharge of their rightful business, have been cast into prison, and there detained during the delay of the vessel. is by virtue of a statute of South-Carolina, passed in 1823, which further declares, that in the failure of the captain to pay the expenses, these freemen " shall be seized and taken as ab-

This

solute slaves," one moiety of the proceeds of their sale to belong against the official Against all remonstrance to the Sheriff.

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opinion of Mr. Wirt, as Attorney-General of the United States, against the solemn judgment of declaring it unconstitutional Mr. Justice Johnson, of the Supreme Court of the United States,

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prohimself a Slave-master and citizen of South-Carolina, also obvious an is which statute, this it unconstitutional

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nouncing

Northern ship-owners, as it is an outrage to the mariners whom it seizes, has been upheld to this clay by Southinjury to

Carolina.

Massachusetts, in order to obtain for her to save citizens that protection which was denied, and especially apSlavery, into sold being of penalty dread them from the

But

this is not

all.

this pointed a citizen of South-Carolina to act as her agent for United the of Court Circuit the in suits bring purpose, and to pretension. States in order to try the constitutionality of this