{"id":4137,"date":"2010-06-28T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T19:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2010-06-28T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T19:24:45","slug":"on-this-day-gop-repealed-fugitive-slave-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/06\/28\/on-this-day-gop-repealed-fugitive-slave-act\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: GOP Repealed Fugitive Slave Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Republicans repealed the Fugitive Slave Act<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this day (June 28) in 1864, the Republican-controlled 38th Congress repealed the notorious Fugitive Slave Act. The law had enabled slave catchers to operate freely in northern states and to kidnap any African-American residing there. Merely by attesting that the person was an escaped slave, a slave catcher could chain him and drag him away to a southern slave market. Moreover, the law required all free people as well as all local and state and federal government officials to assist slave catchers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A pair of Democrats, Senator James Mason (D-VA) and Senator Andrew Butler (D-SC), had written the Fugitive Slave Act. <\/p>\n<p>The bill repealing the Fugitive Slave Act was written by a Republican congressman from Ohio, Rufus Spalding. A Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, signed it into law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong&#8221; said Abraham Lincoln in 1864<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandoldpartisan.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/republicans-rep.html\">Grand Old Partisan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans repealed the Fugitive Slave Act On this day (June 28) in 1864, the Republican-controlled 38th Congress repealed the notorious Fugitive Slave Act. The law had enabled slave catchers to operate freely in northern states and to kidnap any African-American residing there. Merely by attesting that the person was an escaped slave, a slave catcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}