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6 men who framed that instrument. It was intended that all that could be accomplished either by the laws of Nations or by treaty stipulations among the states as independent sovereignties for their own safety should be effected under the Constitution and that the states should be auxiliary to each other in the execution of their criminal laws. Let it be supposed that a citizen of Georgia travelling through the State of Maine were, as he was about to depart from its territory, to commit murder, robbery or arson and to pursue his onward journey unaccused and unmolested until he reached his residence here, and after his arrival were openly to pursue his usual business, could it be entertained for a moment that he should not be arrested and delivered up on demand of the authorities of Maine? Or suppose that Philbrook and Kelleran had, in the part of Savannah, after they were ready to sail for Maine and had left the wharf, murdered one of their seamen, a citizen of Maine, and that for this offence they had been indicted in a court of this State having jurisdiction of the case, and a demand had been made of your Excellency to deliver them up, conforming in all respects to the constitution and laws of the United States, could it with propriety be objected to the demand that they were not fugitives from the justice of this State; or that they were not accused before they actually left the port, or that