Excerpt from A Few Suggestions Upon the Personal Liberty Law and Secession (So Called): In a Letter to a Friend With these feelings and convictions in relation to the Fugitive-slave Law of 1850, I have, nevertheless, always been of the opinion, that every attempt to soften the rigor of the law, to supply its defects, to relieve its injustice, or to obstruct its operation, by State legis lation, would be utterly vain and futile. It is only kicking against the pricks. The wise and prudent thing would have been, to have ...
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Excerpt from A Few Suggestions Upon the Personal Liberty Law and Secession (So Called): In a Letter to a Friend With these feelings and convictions in relation to the Fugitive-slave Law of 1850, I have, nevertheless, always been of the opinion, that every attempt to soften the rigor of the law, to supply its defects, to relieve its injustice, or to obstruct its operation, by State legis lation, would be utterly vain and futile. It is only kicking against the pricks. The wise and prudent thing would have been, to have waited until we had power to soften the rigors of the law on the spot of its origin, in the place of its birth. In that effort we should have had the-aid of wise and good men in all parts of the country. We are held in double trust. We are not only citi zens of Massachusetts, but of the United States. The people framed the Constitutions of both. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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