Report of the minority of the Select Committee to whom was referred the bill to protect our citizens from the claims of slaveholders or their agents on the capture or arrest of fugitive slaves.

[Michigan?] : [publisher not identified], [1850]

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Minority report of a Michigan House committee on a bill related to fugitive slaves in the state. The report notes that the country is divided into sovereign states with sectional interests and that every government or state is bound to protect its own citizens. In 1793 Congress passed laws that states holding enslaved persons could claim the assistance of any state to recover enslaved persons. The minority opinion of the committee is that this is an infringement upon sovereign states and a free people. The report concludes with the recommendation of "the passage of the bill which he has had under consideration, so amended as to secure to every person, claimed by another, the right of trial by jury, and such other amendments as this Legislature may, in their wisdom, adopt for the better security of the rights of our citizens and the common cause of humanity." The report is signed by Erastus Hussey.

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Bill to protect our citizens from the claims of slaveholders or their agents on the capture or arrest of fugitive slaves