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| | Abstract of the argument on the fugitive slave law, made by Gerrit Smith,... |
 | | But the fugitive of the other, if, as is generally the case, he fled before conviction, is to be delivered up for trial - and is, therefore delivered up as an innocent person, and an innocent person he will remain, in the contemplation of law, until he has been tried and found guilty. |
 | | But, even had it decided the law of 1793 to be Constitutional, it would not follow, that the law of 1850 is thereby decided to be Constitutional ; for the law of 1850 is far from being identical, either in its principles or provisions, with the law of 1793. |
 | | It is, nevertheless, held, that the trial of the fugitive servant in the State to which he has fled, is but a preliminary trial, and that his decisive trial is, according to the theory of the case, to be in a State Court, in the State from which he escaped. |
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