The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Massachusetts Personal Liberty bill.

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The Massachusetts Personal Liberty bill.

--Judge Joel Parker, of the Cambridge Law School, an eminent jurist of Massachusetts, has published a letter in the Boston Journal (Republican) of Friday, pronouncing the Personal Liberty bill of that State clearly unconstitutional. The Journal itself ably advocates the repeal of the law in question.--It candidly says:

‘ "The question put to the people of Massachusetts this day is; Will you help your enemies or your friends? or, broader and deeper still, will you preserve the Union or destroy it? We believe that the repeal of this Personal Liberty bill in Massachusetts will be followed by like action in other States. We believe that single act, without other concessions, and without any compromise of principle, will so strengthen the hands of our Union friends in the slave States as to place those States under their control, and that nothing short of it will do it, and therefore that Union or disunion depends more upon the action of Massachusetts than upon that of South Carolina."

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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 2, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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