Letter from Citizens of Newburyport, Mass;, to Mr. Webster: In Relation to His Speech Delivered in the Senate of the United States on the 7th March, 1850, and Mr. Webster's Reply (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letter From Citizens of Newburyport, Mass;, To Mr. Webster: In Relation to His Speech Delivered in the Senate of the United States on the 7th March, 1850, and Mr. Webster's Reply

It will be observed, that in neither of the two cases, does the law provide for the trial of any question, whatever, by jury, in the State in which the arrest is made. The fugitive from justice is to be delivered, on the production of an indictment, or a regu lar affidavit, charging the party with having committed the crime; and the fugitive from service is to be removed to the State from which he fled, upon proof, before any authorized magistrate, in the State where he may be found, either by witnesses or affidavit, that the person claimed doth owe service to the party claiming him, under the laws of the State from which he fled. In both cases, the proceeding is to be preliminary and summary; in both cases, the party is to be removed to the State from which he fled, that his liabilities, and his rights, may all be there regularly tried and adjudged, by the tribunals of that State, according to its laws. In the case of an alleged fugitive from justice, charged with crime, it is not to be taken for granted, in the State to which he has fled, that he is guilty. Nor in that State is he to be tried, or punished. He is.

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