Excerpt from The Fugitive Slave Law: Tried by the Old and New Testaments With the provisions of this law the reader is already familiar; but we shall here give an abstract or analysis of the act as an introduction to some considerations drawn from the Scriptures Upon the treatment due to fugitives from slavery. The first section authorizes and requires all commissioners of the circuit courts of the United States in whom are vested the powers of a justice of-the peace in respect to offenders, for any crime or offense against the United States, to exercise and dis charge all the powers and duties conferred by this act. 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.