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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Constitution and the Constitution. (search)
d the mainland, occupied by rebels, they were placed in irons and confined at the Rip Raps. Fugitives from freedom, encountering every peril to escape therefrom, by some fugitive freedom laws are pursued, overtaken, loaded with irons and threatened with worse if they make further efforts to free themselves from freedom. It may be, in cold iron outline, is imaged something of deeper import—the name of freedom graven on a heavier chain. In the State where I live, said John Sherman, on April 2, 1862 we do not like negroes. We do not disguise our dislike. As my friend from Indiana (Mr. Wright) said yesterday, The whole people of the Northwestern States, are, for reasons, whether correct or not, opposed to having many negroes among them, and that principle or prejudice has been engraved in the legislation of nearly all the Northwestern States. The Bill of Rights of Oregon (published by authority of an act approved February 25, 1901) prohibits the free negro, or mulatto, from com