The Fugitive Slave Law

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Excerpt from The Fugitive Slave Law: Discourse Delivered in the Congregational Church in West Bridgewater, Mass., On Sunday, November 17th, 1850Such was the proceeding in the case of James Hamlet, a respectable and industrious man, living in the city of New York, who was suddenly arrested under this law, tried, and hurried away towards the State of Maryland, before his wife and children, or any of his friends, knew of it. He had neither the time nor the Opportunity allowed him to take his leave of them, to give them his parting advice and blessing, or to commend them to the care of that Being who is the Friend of the oppressed, the Father of the fatherless, and the widow's God. And, had it not been that this man's freedom was afterwards purchased, by private philanthropy, his wife and children had been left destitute, she deprived of her husband, and they Of their father, for no crime, only that he was born south of a certain line, and had a black skin. 0, horrible injustice, that con tinually cries to Heaven for redress! How long, 0 God, shall this remain a reproach and infamy to this enlightened land?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.