Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service

( 1847 ) Commentary by Austin Allen, University of Houston - Downtown

“It was the original policy of the government of the United States, to prohibit slavery, in all territory subject to its exclusive jurisdiction, and to discountenance it by the moral influence of its example and declarations, in the states and districts over which it had no legislative control.” - Reclamation of Fugitives from Service
“Every where we see the clearest evidence of deliberate purpose, to exclude all recognition of the rightfulness of slaveholding, and all national sanction to the practice, from every provision of the constitution.” - Reclamation of Fugitives from Service

Salmon P. Chase (Library of Congress)

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