House of Representatives acts to empower the Governor to take steps to insure that citizens of the state who are charged in slave states as being runaway slaves, be given defense.\u00a0 The long action sites laws from slave states, and instances when Mass. Citizens have been retained.\u00a0\u00a0 The report says, that\u00a0 “if this injustice were inflicted on our citizens by a foreign people, Massachusetts would be shaken from the center to the circumference.\u00a0 And must she quietly endure it all, merely because it chances to be done by her own sister states?\u00a0 Should she not, will she not, at least, lift up her voice against it.\u00a0 And will she not, also, do what\u00a0 she may to protect and preserve, the personal liberty of her citizens, however humble,\u00a0 even, may be the condition, of these citizens?…….”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
House of Representatives acts to empower the Governor to take steps to insure that citizens of the state who are charged in slave states as being runaway slaves, be given…<\/p>\n