By the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, Massachusetts has a right to forbid the use of her prisons--she has a right to forbid her officers from engaging in the extradition of fugitives from labor.
Supreme Court; and maintained that the law of 1793, relative to fugitives from service, was void, because unwarranted by the Constitution of the United States.
I refer, of course, to the clause requiring the extradition of "fugitives from service," who have escaped from one State into another.
Provides for surrender of fugitives from service, III.
Fugitives from service, Act of 1793 for surrender of, III.
Did not empower Congress to legislate for surrender of fugitives from service, III.
You say to the State Legislatures, you shall not obstruct the rendition of fugitives from service, but you may legislate in aid of their rendition, thereby implying that the latter kind of legislation will be their duty.
Nor does it appear to what part of the bill they objected, whether to the part in relation to fugitives from justice, or to those who fled from service, for both classes of fugitives were comprehended in the same bill.
A few years since, the Governor of New York signed a warrant for the apprehension of 17 Virginia negroes, as fugitives from justice.
The indignant legislature of Georgia adopted resolutions calling upon Congress so to amend the laws that the Governor of Maine should be compelled to give up slave stealers as fugitives from justice.
On the contrary, there is abundant authority that such a case is not within either the letter or the spirit of the constitutional provision for the rendition of fugitives from labor.
The act of Congress for the return of fugitives from labor is one required and demanded by the express words of the Constitution.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fugitives from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
