The Next Thing to be Done

March 26, 1858

With Judge Loring removed, this article now calls for a decree” that no human being shall be put on trial in the State, before any tribunal, to determine  whether he is the property of another; that it shall be a criminal act to institute any such act; and that every fugitive slave shall be instantly transformed into a freeman as soon as he touches the soil of Massachusetts…..”

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