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" There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service... "
Monument to the Memory of Henry Clay ... - Page 61
1857 - 516 pages
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Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal ...

Daniel Judah Elazar - Political Science - 1998 - 312 pages
...territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always. That any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming...
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Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases

Paul Finkelman - Electronic books - 1998 - 360 pages
...prohibited slavery in the area north of the Ohio River. It contained, however, the following exception: "Provided, always, That any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming...
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Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure

Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...territory, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always, that any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming...
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Storm Over the Constitution

Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, That any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming...
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A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United ...

William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1999 - 588 pages
...punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided, always, that'any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming...
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A Nation Under God?: Essays on the Future of Religion in American Public Life

R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - Reference - 2000 - 274 pages
...territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always, that any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming...
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Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader

Mason Lowance - Literary Collections - 2000 - 390 pages
...Territory, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, that any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming...
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from ...

David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided always, That any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming...
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The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's ...

the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - History - 2002 - 486 pages
...territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; provided always that any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming...
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Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty

Thurman Lee Hester - Indians of North America - 2001 - 154 pages
...Proclaimed Aug. H. I866 ARTICLE 2. The Creeks hereby covenant and agree that henceforth neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment...whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted in accordance with laws applicable to all members of said tribe, shall ever exist in said nation; and...
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