proper, the South would have paid four hundred and forty-two, and the North six hundred and five millions of dollars. But, as we shall see hereafter, the slave States have really paid seven hundred and ninety-eight millions of dollars, and the free States only two hundred and forty-nine millions of dollars. Therefore, the South has gained nothing by this stipulation in return for her loss of reputation.
"'The other stipulation in favor of the South, was, that 'no person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of party to whom such service or labor may be due.' This provision rests for its due fulfilment, not merely upon the Federal Government, but, like a treaty stipulation between distant nations, must be carried into effect by the municipal regulations of the parties, and their comity and good feeling. Yet what has it been worth to the South? So far from executing this clause, and 'delivering up' the runaway slaves, the free States refuse to pass any efficient law to that end in Congress; and such is their state of feeling, and such their domestic laws, that any federal law, even if enacted, could not be executed. In their own governments, they make it a criminal offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any officer, and in some States for any citizens, to assist in seizing or 'delivering up' a fugitive slave. Their whites and their free negroes assemble in mobs to rescue the slave from the master who is bold enough to capture him, and then accusing himself of the riot they made themselves, throw him in a felon's jail, and load him with fetters, as Pennsylvania has recently done by a respectable citizen of Maryland, When Troutman, of Kentucky, pursued his slaves into the town of Marshall, in Michigan, he was surrounded by a mob, led by the most influential citizens, who declared that 'though the law was in his favor, yet the public sentiment must and should supercede it,' and a resolution was tumultuously
