id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 31191 Dexter, Franklin A Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. .txt text/plain 19584 855 64 of your vote for the Fugitive Slave Law. You had a high and recent Court, Congress has the power to pass a law for the recovery of fugitive Constitution respecting fugitive slaves was the grand compromise State had at that very time a law for catching and returning fugitive an act of Congress secures to the Slave States officers in the navy in Your first excuse for voting for the recent slave-catching law, after was proved to be a slave; while under the new law that power is are omitted in your law, as the word _slave_ is in the Constitution, but _black_ man, the Constitution required a jury trial, recollect, Sir, the Fugitive Slave Act. Such men were, in the language of one of the New congratulate yourself, that, in voting for the Fugitive Slave Law, you 1. "The Fugitive Slave Bill passed by Congress shall remain the law of ./cache/31191.txt ./txt/31191.txt