THE LAW

OF

FREEDOM AND BONDAGE

IN THE

UNITED STATES.

BY

JOIN CODMAN HURD,

COUNSELLOR AT LAW.

Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.

ENNIUS, apud Cic. de Rep.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY.

NEW YORK :
D. VAN NOSTRAND.

M.DCCC.LVIII,

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by

JOIN CODMAN HIRD, In the Clerk's Omce of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern

District of New York.

JOHN F. TROW,
PAINTER, STEREOTYPRE, AND ELECTROTYPER,

Nos. 377 & 379 Broadway, New York.