Excerpt from Report of the Joint Special Committee on So Much of the Governor's Address as Relates to Slavery and on Petitions Praying the Legislature to Instruct Their Senators and to Request Representatives in Congress to Procure a Repeal of the "Fugitive Slave Law" I It subjects the people to unreasonable searches and seiz ures, and thus violates their right to be secure in their per sons; for any man may be arrested on the affidavit of any other man swearing that he is a slave, and be sent into bondage by the act of a single commissioner. We have already seen free men thus seized and hurried off to slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.