Fugitive Slave Act, first (1793), § 16, § 17; first called for, § 17; necessity of the act, § 17; passed the Senate, passed the House, § 17; signed by the President, § 17; text, B 9; followed earlier examples, § 17, § 18; status of opinion on, § 17; remained inoperative, § 16, § 17; to enforce the, B 29.
Fugitive Slave Act, second (1850), attempts to secure, § 20, § 21; secured, § 29; introduced by Mason, § 29, B 30; Webster proposes, B 30; substitute offered, B 30; passed Congress, § 29; necessity of, urged, § 31; arguments for, § 31; arguments against, § 32; provisions of, § 30; text of, B 31; unpopularity of, § 51; no moral foundation, § 51; declared unconstitutional, § 85; non-execution of, § 85; resolution to amend, C 45.
Fugitive Slave Acts repealed (1864), repeal urged, § 85; status of, § 100; early propositions, § 101; discussion, § 101; repeal bill, § 101; passed, § 103; repeal bill discussed, § 103; bill to amend, C 25; repeal bills, C 49, C 76, C 80, C 82; repeal bill passes, § 103; text of, § 104, C 83.
Fugitive Slave Bill of 1818, passed the House, § 19, § 20; title of, § 20; failure in the Senate, § 21.
Fugitive Slave Cases. See Table of Contents.
Fugitive Slave Clause, in the New England Articles of Confederation, § 8; in the Constitution, § 15-§ 16; in the Treaty of Ghent, § 22, B 12.
Fugitive Slave Controversy, educating effect of, recapitulation of, § 105.
Fugitive Slave Legislation, opposed by Northern States, § 25; inadequacy of, proved, § 26; necessity of more stringent, § 26; proposition for new, § 27; must be carried out, § 49; new element in, § 79; in 1860, § 85; resistance to, declared felony, § 86; propositions to repeal or amend, § 87; after emancipation proclamation, § 92.
Gallatin, Albert, in Treaty of Ghent, § 22.
Gardiner, ----, commissioner in Hamlet case, § 53.
Garner, Margaret, flight and seizure, § 56.
Garner, Robert, flight and seizure, § 56.
Garner, Simeon, flight and seizure, § 56; case D 58.
Garrett, Thomas, trial and fine, reward offered for, § 74.
Georgia, difficulty in recovery of fugitives in, § 8; Governor of, demands fugitives from justice, § 47.
Giddings resolution, § 28, B 23, B 25, B 27, B 28.
Glocester, given jurisdiction over runaways, A 24.