The question was taken on the motion of Mr. Frelinghuysen, with the following result:
Ayes.—Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Kansas—16.
Noes.—Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia—4.
So the amendment was adopted.
Mr. Roman dissented from the vote of Maryland.
Mr. AMES:—I move an amendment which will make the section more explicit. I move to strike out the word "force," and to insert instead thereof the words "violence or intimidation."
The motion was agreed to without objection.
Mr. ORTH:—I move to amend the seventh section by adding at the close thereof the following words:
"And such fugitives, after such payment, shall then be discharged from such service."
I am opposed to this whole business of making compensation for fugitive slaves; but if this section is to be adopted, and the Government pays the owner the whole value of the fugitive, upon every principle of equity and justice the fugitive should be discharged, and the master should have no right to reduce him again to slavery. You make the measure of the owner's damages in such a case the value of the slave. Do you intend, after he has secured that, he shall still have the right of capture—that after the damages have been fully paid, he may still call on the courts of law for the slave's surrender? This would be a double compensation indeed. I shall insist upon this amendment, and ask a vote by States.