The 1850 Slave Act, or Bloodhound Law, galvanized anti-slavery sentiment in the North and serves as the most grotesque abuse spearheaded by the Democratic slave-powers. This law forced states and citizens to act as Federal law enforcement to capture slaves, yet despite this apparent victory for te pro-slavery Democratic States, the application of Constitutional principles was maligned as violence against their prized institution and their citizens. The great Frederick Douglass highlighted the horrors of this act and the slave-power more generally by using the Founding and Framers as an effective foil, highlighting the deviation away from Founding principles by the party of Calhounism.