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. Thrashe: tial discharge of public duty. A heavy responsi- Wounded by the defendant and his asso- | sometimes, indeed, subjecting claimants to nal | tute, and had s well known legal signification a The Case of Mr. Thresher Interesting | THE TREASON TRIALS AT PHILADELPHIA. sau epent penal therote nora et Sin wala cryioe cs ton craviaton dco dangers, which pradeat meu ware not willing to the'ime they were aaed by the of the Him, de. = its requirements. If it can be shown by | spiracy to resist, oppose and render ino} eand | encounter, even the purvuit of thelr rights. ral constitution. ‘Tals is exprosoly stated by Cael the Bosten Times, Nov. 26.) Opening for the Gevernment. and credible testimony that the do- | void theactsof referred to intheindictment. | still the act of 1825 @ local State tribunal in | Justice Marshall, 2 Burr's trial, 401, his language The is an extract of s letter received is guilty of the offence which is charged in 6. ne the jury, is the general outline overy county, h an inconvenient one, to | being that “It is reasonable fo supptes the. tape by a gentleman in Portland, from Mr.J.S. Thrasher, United States Circult Court. the indictment, it is essential to the peace of the | of the which | propose alesonee io a claimant the act of 1798 could apoly ‘levying war’ is used in that nt in dated “ Punta Fortress, Nov. 12, 1851.” THIRD DAY. country that you should so by your verdict. | order to sustain the accusations sined inthe in- | But the act of 1817, took that away from him by | same sense in which it is understood in the Dear Six—I do not doubt you will feel comewhat . Justice requires it, and the o| alias of pout oaths dictment. The details of the testimony, as you will | forbidding the State Judiciary to ny wg law to bave been used in the Statute of 25 alarmed about me, when you read the oxaggertied OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. demands it. ] need hardly say to you, that the | receive it from the witnesses, will fully co te | of the case of s fugitive from under the act of | ward III.” He then adds, “that principles stories in regard to me, which are being published Puiwapetenta, Nov. 28, 1851. outrage perpetrated at Christians was, in my judg- } this sketch. Ifthe result of the investigation ex- | 1793. And the use of the county prison wasre- | down by such writers as Coke, Foster, and Black- in the American #, and therefore I embrace | ye asrwean’s OPENING ADDRESS TO THE yuRY. | emt, treason against the United States; and all | hibite the state of facte which I antici it will | fased for the detention o! as | stone, are nob Hey to be rejected.” He them an early oppor to drop you a few lines. It is A who are partic pated in it, are guilty of that of- | be contended on hehalf of the United that | such # fugitive. What was the ectual state of | defines, at base! in what levying war con- of course true that T atin prison sd in 8 dungeoa, The Court met at ten o’clock. The juror’soath | fence. It was s concerted and combined resistance, | the crime of high treason has been estab! things lueed by the tion of these laws? | sists, 74 where a bod; men are as- and that the dungeon is rather damp—but the | was administered to the twelfth juryman, Mr. Cow- | by force, of a statute of the United States, and was tguint the defeniant; and that you faithfully, bon- None but a judge of the United States could aid | sem! for the ie of war ageinst ther is warm, and this does not in any degree | den, He had previously been sworn merely to give | Made with the declared intent, so far as the do- | estly, and fearlessly responding pees 4 5 "1 7 the obligations | the claimant of @ fugitive from labor, and that | the government, and are ins ealth. Four days since, permission was true answers cu his examination to'test his fitness fendant Hanway was concerned, to render its ofzanr caine, wi say so by your verdict. Treason | judge could not commit such fugitive to any gousiy war, the assemblage to frie: and that I might have rovisions void, and to make the act altogether | against nited States, a8 defined in the third | prison for safe keeping, p»nding an in’ y Coke, Foster, and the other English elementary male me Tiiciting tatsrials, of which to act as # juryman in the case. too ive. The proof against him will Develoar | sestion of the third article of the national constitu- | fore him. At that jo United States had three | writers clearly maintain the doctrine that any sent companions | was deprived for elghtcon days. | John W. Ashmead, Esq., United States District | and convincing, an doi re such as to satisfy overy one of | tion, consists in levying war against them, or in ad- < in this State, having jurisdiction in cases of | sistance to an act of Parliament by combination To-day they had me up in court, for “prosody Attorney, opened the case, on the part of the go- BS caitlin overt acts will be established by | hering to their enemies, giving them aid and com- " egies from labor. The Judge of the Eastern | and force, to render it inoperative and ineffective, either b T protested against the A of more than two witnesses, in go | fort. The crime char this defendant is t, residing in Philadelphia; the Judge of the | is treason by levying war; and the American which Taid strongly, ‘or because they could not find | Vernment, as follows:— inted and “histinet @ manner that no question of | that He Ls, fret of these subdivisions, | Western District, residing FS Pittsburg, and the | authorities Zaopt the English doctrine. In tho sufficient ground to convict me on, ! was remanded MR. ASHMEAD’S OPENING. ir truth can exist. In order that you may fully | viz.: that of levying war against the United States. | Circuit Judge, whose time was divided by the Cir- | cases of the Wostern insurgents, 2 Dallas, 345, 347, to prison, whence | now write. Philad 355, also reported in Wharton’s State Trials, 182, . May rv PLease THE CouRT—G&NTLEMEN OF | understand the character of the evidence which | The phrase, levy war, was long before the adop- | cuits held in einhia, Trenton (New Jersey), do not think I shall be sentenced to the galleys | ruz Juny:—It becomes my duty, as the officer | we propose to introduce, I will give you a brief | tion ofthe constitution, a phrase of well-known legal Wi rt, and Pittsburg. And these judges, Judge Patterson says, “If the object of the for life, or even to prison, for there is not ground | charged by the law with the prosecution of crimes | narrative of the facts as they be detailed by | signification, embracing such a forcible resistance | located at such remote points, had no means given | surrection was to suppress the Excise office, and enough to convict in any way, and the worst that! | and offences committed agent the laws of the | the witnesses. On the 9th of Septombor last, Ei to the laws, as that charged against this defead- | them to secure a person c! ed as a fugitive from | to prevent the execution of an act of Congress by think ean happen to me, is to be sent out of the | United States, within the Eastern District of Penn- | ward D. Ingram, Esq., a Commissioner ofthe United | ant. Since the adoption of the constitution, ithas | laber, even in the rare inst in whish force and intimidation, the offence in legal estima- island. The crime they accuse me of is treasen! spivaie, to submit for your consideration the in- | States, issued four warrants, directed to Houry H. | received s similar construction from the federal ju- | could be brought before them. In this state of | tion is high treason; it is an usurpation of the 5 But then comes the necessity of proving it, which ictment upon which the prisoner at the bar has | Kline, an officer appointed by him under theauthor- | diciary, and may now be considered as a d | things, the arrest of a fugitive fram labor, in Penn- | authority of the government. It is high treason they have not been able to do in the slightest man- | been arraigned, in order that you may dotermine | ity of the act of 13th September 1850, command- Principle of the criminal code of the United States. | sylvania, became, ly speaking, an impossi- by 1 war.” Judge Iredell, in the cases ver; and next, the proving that [am amenable to | wy the question of his guilt orinnovence. It | ing him te apprehend Noah Bailey, Nelson Ford, judicial decisions men which this potion is | bility. Or, ce in nine cases out of ten, the the Northampton insurgents, in his charge to such & ebarge. Thus you will see that | have a | c! es him with the commission of a crime of a | Joshua Hammond, and Geor, ene § who | predici will be submitted to the court and your- | promises of the constitution and the laws tothe | the Grand Jury, says, ‘| am warranted in saying, well-grounded conviction that they can do nothing | higI wated character; in its nature, the | had been leg ¢ before the said Com- | selves, in the course ofthis address, io that which I | claimant of a fugitive from labor, became the | that if,in the cases of the insurgents who may more than send me out of the country, which I | most serious that can be perpetrated spies @ | missioner with being ‘itives from labor, who regard as its a priate place. The act of Con- | merest delusion. In other States of the Union, | come under your consideration, the intention believe they are determined to do. In this case it | human government. It is technically called high | had escaped from the State of Maryland into the | gress, which the defendant is charged to have for- | laws of an eq urgent and embarrassing charac- | was to prevent, by force, the execution of an act isnot improbable that I shall have the pleasure of | treason, and is defined in the constitution of the | State of Pennsylvania, and owed such service and la- | cibly, violently, and treasonably seaieted., ie an | ter prevailed, until the provision of the constitution | of Congress of the United States altogether, seeing you some time this winter. Frank was two | United States and the act of Congress of 30th | borto a certain dward Gorsuch. The fact that the | act, approved on the 18th of September, }, on- py caing | Paves from labor, and the laws passed | forcible opposition calculated to carry that in- days in confinement, but they could not find a | April, 1790. It consists in this country only in } writé had been issued, became known to colored | titled, “‘An act to amend, and Ong mnie th to carry it into execution had almost reached the | timidation into effect, was a levying of war shadow on which to ground a ol him— f levying war against the United States, and in ad- | man living in this city, named Samuel Williams, | the act en |, ‘An act respecting fugitives = of absolute nullity. And this great nation jainst the United States, and of eourse an ace a only guilty of being my Brot or—so they pals their enemies, by giving to them aid and | whe preceded the officers to the neighborhood | justice and persons o g from the service of iteelf in the position of these weak and feeble treason. But if its intention was merely to out & usiness with the | comfort. The treason charged against the pri- | where the slaves resided, and where the arrests | their masters, approved February 12, 1793.’”” Tho | goveraments in which there oxist defeat its eperation in a partioular instance, or greatest philosophy, and laugh at the whole affair; | soner at the bar is that of levying ‘War against the | were to have been made, and gave notice that they | original act of and .the supplement of 1950, ‘Laws for all faults; through agency of a partioular officer, from and in some parts of it, I assure you, it is ridiculous | United States, and I desire you distinctly to under- | were coming to execute them. On the llth of | are based on the provision of the second section of But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes some private or personal motive, though a» high enough.— Argus. ttand that it is nots case of constructive treason, | September, Kline and his party, consisting of | the 4th article of the constitution of the United Ream. the pel a ae barber's sbop, offence may have been committed, it did not The Newb Herald, of peereny contains | but one of actual treason, and embraced witgin the | Edward Gorsuch, Dickerson Gorsucb, Joshua M | States, and areintended tocarry into full and faith- es TR MARS 86 amount to the of treason. The particular > 7 justly to ent i a letter from Havana, dated the Lith, giving an | purview of the constitution and the act of Congress | Gorsuch, Dr. Thomas Pearce, Nicholas Hutch- | ful execution, the clear, positive, and unequivo- Under such » state of things, what was j motive must, however, be the sole ingredient in the account of the trial, as it is called, of Mr. ftancker, [te whieh alincion hap bean sade. ‘What. the | ings, and Nathan Nelson, proceeded to Christiana, | cal injunctions of that’ instrament. Thee sec- Be on aot Sree possi spor gyn pc rampeepes cage; for if committed with a general view to ob- There were three charges against him. First, that | law is upon this subject I will fullyexplain be | Lancaster county, and oa arriving: Ste, siarced | tion which I allude to, declares that “No per | rantees and pledges o! the constitution? Dee; i struct the exeoution of the act, offence must be he had received certain letters, in cypher, from New | fore I conclude my spening remarks; but I now | for Parker’s house, a place about three miles dis- | son held to service or labor in one State | ings intense excitemonts, ariing from patsy wi} deemed treason. {n Fries’ case, Wharton’s State Orleans, by steamer Gecegie second, that some | state that any combiaation or oconspi » by | tant from the reilroad depot, ontheColumbiaroad, | under the laws thereof, eecaping into another, | ooeatbilit mortified pride, and great personal in- trials, 584, Judge Peters, in his charge to the Grand friend sent a leaf of br wrapped in a piece 0° | force and intimidation, to prevent the execution of | which they reached about daylight in the morning shall, in consequence ef any law or regulation | jorests believed an Ne ninend 4 fis te Of this | Jay says, “ [tis treason in levying war inst the Spanish paper of the day, with the arrival o° | an act of Congress, s0 as to render it inoperative | While proceeding along the road, and acrose the | therein, be discharged from sash servico ortabor, | state of public feeling, im some instances, it is to | *¢ ‘United States for persons who have nexe buts the United States ship Cyane.. This he never re- | and ineffective, is, in legal estimation, high treason, | fields, their attention was arrested by the sound of | but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to | be narod bad and designing men sought to take | *Ommon interost with their fellow citizens, to op- ceived. Third, that, while in his prison, his mother | being an usurpation ofthe authority ot government. | horns, and the blowing of a bugle. After watch- | whom such service or labor may be due.” It is yy, advantage, until, in the tlerceness of the con- | Pf oF prevent by force, numbers or intimidation, sent him some cakes, wrapped up in aa American | This construction of the constitution ofthe United | ing about Paiker’s house for a short time, one or | almost needless to say, that without this provision ‘fice that arose, our noble Union seemed to rock | * public and general law of tho United States, with » (an old one,) which contained some accoun’ | States has been cotemporaneous with the adoption | twe negroes were seen coming en of it. Oa disco- | the constitution of the United States never could 6) its foundation. But the sarin; Spirit, which intent to prevent its operation, or compel its re- of Lopez's expedition, and sevoral declarations from | of that instrament, an every judge, whether Stat» | vering Klino and his party they flod back into the | have been adopted; the existing national Union hes over guided our national bright tad glorious al.” Again:—‘ Although but one law be imme- his r, who was also imprisoned, and his fa | or Federal, whose attention has been directedto th | house, and on pursuit being made by him, they ran | never could have been formed, and the poworful destipies. rose above the storms pointing’ out to jiately assailed, the treasonable design is completed, ther and others, rospeoti: 0 paper whist b | subject, has agreed in this interpretation. It was | up stairs. These negroes were recognized by Ed- | prosperous, and Fieclons republic of the United anxious patriotism the haven of posse, coneord, and | #24 the generalit; of the intent designated by « the way, he never saw, as he was allowed nothing. | so held in the cases of the Western insurgents in | ward Gorsuch, and kaown to be his slaves. Kline | States mover could have existed among the nations Lnion in, thé alemhion: of the rie ceaiienel de + assum @ government of the whole. These made up the espediente, or the full » | 1795; in the cases of the Northampton insurgentsin | entered the house, and almost immediately ascor- | of the earth. Of the value of this Union, not only peer th anilicnas ponte ‘session bright ‘Amon ugh punishments are designated by particular that the Queen’s lawyer could bring against him. | 1799; in the case of Aaron Burr in 1907, by Judge | tained that a large number 0” negroes wtro con- | tous ass separate people, but to the common fa- {150 is to be found the act of the ISth of Se; rind laws for certain inferior crimes, which, and co Ms he formed his cause, and pronounced | Story in his charge to the Grand Jury, in 1812; by | cealed in the upper part of it; he nevertheless wont | mily of mankind, I admit my utter inadequacy to 00 Veho the law. the execution of which ‘thhs “ia, | a8 substantive offences and-the sole object of tha ity of treason, and asked that he might be | Judge King, President of the Court of Common | to the stairway and called the keeper of tue house to | form an estimate, regarding it as one of those great ¢ndant ig charged, in ecablanteeent oan peomention, are exclusively liable to the —- the miues for eight years. Pleas, of this county, in his charge to the Grwad | come dewn, stating that he was desirous of speaki blessings of Divine Providence, which human intel- cert with Sthene ia Gare seein Agee pet lirected by those laws, yet when committed with being done, ns lic notice was given, inthe | Jury in 1846; and in 1851 by his Honor Judge Kane, | to him. The negrocs at this time were heard load. | lect cannot fathom, and which increases in appre- | S24 death. This act, whieh has heen oh | treasonable ingredients, these crimes become only ‘ernment paper of the 11th, that on the following | who reviewed the whele Jaw, upon this subject, ina | ing their guns. Kline hearing the noise, said to | ciation with the progressive developement of its be- commented upon, is, in i | lyin lng iy circumstances or overt acts. The intent is the iat y the trial would take place, as follows:—* To- | 9 clear and conclusive platen, which has been be- | them that there was no occasion for arming then- | nefits. The constitution of the United States, you fotures and better caloulated — tevent | of the offence in treason.” Judge Iredel, in Fi ee will be cele |, at a public court mar- | fore the country since the 29th ef September last. | selves,—that he designed to harm no one, put | are aware, was adopted oy & convention of tho sbuses, than the original wet of ens Li ‘rug, | cate, immediately follows Judge Peters; and refer- og of the igioctony commission, to see and judge | The treason cl ed against the defendant ia thol meant to arrest two men who were in the house, and oe of the States, on the 17th of September, | Orwhich it oss ay we pega at “A the | Ting to the law laid down by Judges Patterson and cause of John S. Thrasher, charged with the | he wickedly devised and intended to arb | for whom he had warrants. Some one ropliod they . At the second session of the Second Con- dt"of 1798" any eats at aaa nek or Peters in the Western lnsurgents, (2 Dallas R- crime of treason, which act will te? Place at the | the peace and tranquillity of the United States, | would not come down. Edward Gorsuch then went gress, held under that instrument, viz: on the 12th Oo. 'town oor, — _ ipa alte, ed (8 bet 355,) seys:—‘* As Ido not differ from that dec'sion, om a the first come a ry regiment of | by preventing the executign of the laws within the | himself to the stairway, called his slaves by name, y of Fobruary, 1793, was passed the “Act fom labor pve ava beet aeuaaens aubhes ised | ™Y opinion is that the same declarations should be i + at at the barracks called Feinza.” This same, to wit: a law of the United States, entitled | and stated that if they would come down and return | respecting fugitives from justice, and persons +> po Mg pi ew any ‘of the complaint, and grant the | made upon the points of law at this time. J 0 ae rr Dat the 0 » ‘An act respecting fugitives from justice, and per- | home he would treat them kindly and forgive the | escaping from the service of their masters.” Its 59, et certificate for his eee the State Chase, on the second trial of Fries, was on “ pe oi = ea oe nt e “ge assem! aed; sons cacaping from the service of their masters, ap- | past. Kline then read the warrants three times, and | provisions were plain, simple, and clear, mani- poe from which be has fled In lies of thie bench, and in an elaborate opinionhe maintsias tha con: ae go Se resic eae, i a Genel ar- | proved February 12, 1793,” and also a law of the afterwards attempted to go up stairs, when a sharp iting on the part of its framers, many of whom gjiiogt at pa magistracy, from which the claim- doctrine which had been ruled in the previous ; “eae pox pa icors. A h ueen’s re dt | United States, ‘entitled ‘An act to amend, and | pointed instrament was at him, andanaxe | had ‘the members of tho National Convention, Qnt might havo form o his pit oe ‘under the act of | °a#® Judge Story, in his charge to the Grand) wa Woe <a : — to rei fs ie ators, which | peppiemen to the act entitled ‘An act respest- | afterwards thrown down which struck two of the | which had previously framed the constitution, 79 i} must, under the act of 1950, make his appli- | JY» delivered June 15, 1842, (1 Story’s Re- be} ie “ in the baye — “ rasher. ing fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from party below. Edward Gorsuch, then went tothe | a frank, honest, and sincere disposition to carry cation to a Judge of the Cirsuit or District Ceress ports, 614,) —“*It is not necessary thit After the reading was through, the defensor was | the service of their masters, approved February 12, | front door of the house, and looking up to tho | into effect a sonstitutional injanction, waich most fthe United States, or to a Commissioner appoint- | * Should be & direst and positive intention ber , Ww ~ aks ce tain a ermy, gods ~~ % | 1793,” which supplementary act was approved | window, again called tohis slaves by name, whon —— was unpalatable to some of them. The ed by the Circuit Court—an officer direct! Pe ‘on. | entirely to overthrow ,the government. It will be Sele ries won oe S out beg ae the 18th of Septem! 1850, generally known as | a shot was fired at him from the window. In | law is sufficiently brief to justify my reading a por- eto the Judge of the Circuit Court of the Uitte ny kane if the intention is by force to pre- Th oo] 7 spaber th ; he did A isd t, r “se tho Fugitive Siave The overt acts, which | order to intimidate the blacks, Kline fired his pis- | tion of it. The third and fourth sections of it are 8, bi —— he is appointed, and whoso duty | Vent the execution of any one or more of the gene- ‘etdonee ands # tars at he at 1 H may be considered as the evidence or manifestation | tol. At this period ahorn was blown in the house | asfollows:—‘“Sec. 3. That when a person held to | iti, png d that the high rte rencsed by him 24 ral laws of the United States, or to resist the exer- tim to thee i ie it eoner was su! ahive dig of the manner in which the treason was committed, | which was answered by other horns from the out- | laber in any of the United States, or in either of such Comsalssioncr H faithfall: ae y and ha. | cise of any legitimate authority of the government bis hebine emtned ef haa agp ym ive Bros Oi are set forth in the indictment as follows:— | wide, as if by pre-concorted action. Tho negroes | the territories on the northwest or south of the | Donevexcouted. This Sams hoe ne tke ‘objes. | 2 it ereign cnpecity. ‘Thus, if there is an as- fae ng. Ceo Se ie ~~ be — <a aii First.—That on the llth of September, 1851, in | then asked fifteen minutes time for consideration, | river Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall esca) tions beg to the act of 1796, which was Prey it sembly of persons, with force with intent to prevent hin cae roel bean eget 8} t 6 Oe no 0 | the county of Lancaster, and within the juris | which was granted to them. At this moment a | into any othe of the said States or territory, the | pave the complainant the choice of the ma; nistrate, the collection of taxes lawful, or duties levied by ing neal Bo fegpe fee 2B | diction of this court, the defendant, with ajgreat | white man was seen approaching the house on pe to whom such labor or service may be due, & whom he a7 ht apply, and thus ce to | the government, or to destroy all custom heuses, any we pm . or “ rag rm J number of persons, armed and arrayed in a war- | horseback. It turned out to be Castner Hanway, nt or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize the choice of a Ba «2-4 sty interoste | OF {© resist the administration of justice in the a on —- a 4 ti charge of | like manner, with guns, swords, and other woa- | the present defendant. Kiine immediately walked | or st such fugitive from labor, and to take him isnt be operated upon, i the Geedventace of United States, and they proceed to execute their oY. oe ‘4 - eee a - 7 eae | tite bord Per | pons, assembled and traitorously combined to op- | towards him and inquired if he resided in the | or her before any jadge of the Circuit or District ty ‘alle; a fa itive Ps The enh under the law purpese by force, there can be no doubt it would ba Cont hie col rye an ir B adsat H pose and prevent, by intimidation fand violence, | neighborhood. His answer was short and rude: | Courts ofthe United States, residing or being within of 1793 "when 8 ‘cess prece od the arrest of an | ea#on against the United States.” Judge King, pe ad ich seemed to annoy re and | the execution of the laws of tho United States | “ Jt is none of your business.” Kline replied by | the State, or before any magistrate of a county, | alleged’ fu; tive mi; Al be executed by an: in his charge to the Grand Jury, on the occasion of He ma soked by the President whet he had to already adverted to, and arrayed himself in a | lett him know he was a Deputy Marshal of the | city, or town co} ‘ate, wherein such seizure or ar- | os offer aalactod” by the claimant oy white the Ke: ‘ton riots, holds the same doctrin His say; he answered, 7, Ip PB ce say ar warlike manner against the said United States. | United States, gave him the warrants to read, and | rest shall be made, and upon proof, to the satisfac- vader the act of 1850, it im be either executed | #>gusge is, “that where the object of a riotous el dew ne eee ok pare Pet Second—That at the same time and place, the said | called upon him, in the name of the United Sta‘es, | tion of such jadge or magistrate, cither by oral tes- | by the Marshal or his deputy, or by a proper per- | *88embly isto prevent, by force and violence, the behad noes keot ay vd pi seca within Castner Hanway assembled with others, with the | to assist in making the arrests. Hanway replied, timony or affidavit taken before and certified by a Pa designated by the Conzea ia 2 kes 4 execution of any statute, or by force and violenog das aeee and then cat baty a hu Saeot avowed intention, by force and poeepegeemn eg pre: | “he would not assist—that he did not care for that magistrate of any such State or territory, that the wa het ogi 4 4 thie, on ta al coher é. the | t@ compel its repeal by the legislative authority, = t NE moe pak fh c a digg 8 a om 4 vent the execution of the said laws to which | have | act of Congress or any other act—that the negroes _ person se seized or arrested doth, under the laws of Pe ecution of his office, immediate! , ae to | of to deprive any class of the community of the trod The esos snootnosd,tm a tevere ane | prasittnsteg aiertent® Stanegtampmuion | bed ahs cod cou daood themasirn andthe: | (he Sta or tritory Tom which he or the fed, | Ske Tadge of the Suprome Court of te Univ | Proagion oforded 0%, lnc, ering coral s +1 a mt ere to make arrests,for he owe ice Or r to the yn claimin, ors r andl churches of meetin, Ouse: a - Se one Mae = age ins ous nae eel a | Henry H. Rhine, an officer duly appointed (<4 Ed- | could not do it.” By this time, another white man | her, it shall be the duty of such judge or ebm of | perpen Bet ng | han Ms Be high Dleme under color of reining & public grievance, Or od _ " “g ® e ae mane y-two | ward D). Ingraham, Gare a Commissioner of the | had arrived on the ground, (Hiijah*Lewis,) who | to give s certificate thereof to such claimant, his | P¢,rosno me ‘national tribsaal. eforis & sxe | tFelease all prisoners in the public jails and the ad po wo, &c. a, other ieee ions be Circuit Court of the United States, from executing | waiked up te Kline, andasked him for hisauthorisy | agent er attorney, which shall bo sufficient warrant | Penden ys ine trast repesed be him la @e nn like, and the rioters proceed to execute by force their ay al prompt arse 5 he ~*~ en | lawful process to him directed tea yond certain per- | to bethere. Kline showed his pay tohimals> | for removing the said fugitive from labor to the | | Soper shall be abused inont the pat tow - determined objects and intents, they are guilty ‘4 Bnd as 4 ‘eC of vet Pres cs sc sons charged before the Commissioner with being | Lewis then read the warranty, p them toHaa | State or territory from which he or she fled. Sec. | prompt redress. And who can doubt that if of high treason in levying war.” To the same effect in . yer ave — same Pye © gs |For held to service or labor in the State of | way, who returned them to the Marshal. Lewis, 4. That any person who shall, knowingly and wil- | Coskiehener should abuse his power, in the sele = trict Judge (Hon. John K. which I sent to you resterday, and you refased to | Maryland, owing such service and labor to after reading the warrants, said, “The negros had « _ lingly, obstruct or hinder auch claimant, nis agent | tion of the agent designated by ‘nim tp execute hie grand jnry on the 29:h of receive, it.” | TWwelby’ said the Presiden’, “reat | tain Edward Gorruch, under the lawsof the Stato | right todefend themselves.” Kline then called up n | or att rney, in so seizing, or arresting suit fugitive | Process, the Judge fre whom ho derived nif says, “The expression levying it now” —- rasher read @ powerful paper, pro | of Maryland, who had escaped into the astern Dis- | him to assist him inmaking the arrests, when hor:- | from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such | Proces®, ae deene bin afte ithe act of formed oF de any combination forcibly to prevent er oppoee the execution or enforcement ofa provision ras The edie of proot | ofthe conttution, or ofa publi statue, if accom- der the two acts are also identical. Theymay be or followed by an act of forelble opposition her oral testimony delivered to the jud or tas. Ei jureaacee of such combination.” The aathori- testing that he was not allowed counsel to examine | trict of Pennslvania, Third—That in further oxe- | fused, and would not even tell his name, Kline thon | elalmant, his agent, or attorney, waon 89 arrested | ons mould promptiy deprive hia of thom. | The , authorized the origi- the ‘autors,”—that he was ignorant of what b+ | cution of his wicked design, the defendant assom- | asked Hanway where his residence 0 re ant to the authoritygherein given or declared, was accused, and that no time had been allowe! | bled with certain persons who were armed and ar- | plied, ‘+ You vaust find that out the b y you Pr aball harbor or ecaeeel such pisaeed after notice him to procure witnesses. He referred to the treaty | rayed with the design, by means of intimidation and | ‘an.” Kline then explained to them what his vi that he or she was a fugitive from labor, as afore. fs the countries, quoting part of the 7th sev- | Morey : od ee BY) He pegeoon! “ ay laws < 7 aot ee of 1350 were, and sai: | said, shall, for either of the said offences, forfeit and . J ady allude: an ig 20 assembled, kno#- | that through their agency these slaves would o« jum of five hundred dollars, which penalt, ties and opinions which | have quoted are conci The President qrastanily cheeked him — a7 ingly and willingly assaulted Honry H. Kline, the | ape. By this time the blacks had gathored in | e recovered by and for the benefit th suc! wr pete die hemp id preg bed ¢ terri and | sive of the question of law, and prove that the orci be sald treaty, or CU sag ody tates, vy — officer appointed by the Commissioner to execute | very lenge numbers around the house, armed with p~ Brod by action of debt, in any court proper to | from ae the ile ed fugitive is nid. to of ble resistance to the execution ef the law of the e paper was handed in and attacked to theaw- | his Process, and then and there, the will | gure, which they commenced Pointing towards the | try the same: saving, moreover, to the person | fed. "The sonclusiveness of cue certiGeate ofreme | \Bited States, known asthe Fugitive Slave law of tors, The resident he Panper of the said Henry H. Kline, liberated and took out | Marshal. At this juncture, Kline implored Han- | claiming sueh labor or service his right of action for, | ys) j« equal under the two lawa. Under the net of | 1800, Which took place at CI ve you anytl ig a to of teks of his custody Fersose before that time arrested by | way and Lewis to keep the Ry from fi and | or on account of the said injuries, oreither ofthem.” | j<59, leclared so in terms. Under the ac: of of September last, in which the defendant partict- protest against the wi 4 peeseatings. BY * bim. Fourth—' the detendant, in pursuance of | he would withdraw his men, leave the ground, and | For a series of years after its passage, this law was | }- the same in effect, the Supre Cor rt pated, with others, if designed to ronder its provi- cong, ee prisoner”—and the file of ten hee ~~ his traitorous combination and cane to op | let the 0. Henway instantly replied, | quietly executed, according to its spirit and letter, | of this State having so held, in cane .y which gions inoperative and void, was treason against the marched him away. The prisoner then asked the pose and prevent the said laws ofthe UnitedStates | “They i to defend themselves, and he | neither State legislatures nor State iuiisiaries citemnnte be anes te igo behi id the certié. | United It was a lovying of war within the defensor if he had anytRing more to offer.—he siit from being carried into execution, conspired and | would not interfere.” Kline's answor was, ‘they | throwing any obstructions in its w ‘nthe ox- meaning of the constitution. Tue intent with whi no. He then ord the court to be cleared, to agreed with others to oppote and prevent, by force | were not good citizens, or th 0 uld it | citi ‘ ie f di tic slave: pores jigned cate & tome fer it had heen granted. If the u er - lapseuah conclude upon entence. and intimidation, the exeoution of the said laws, | the laws iy be set at ‘defianoa ‘in this way De | witht ‘om borders. In rach’ ol he "States laws of 1796 ond 1550 are sabsteatially identical, in the offence, If it wea not levelled « at the statute The yer was remanded to the dungeon, from din th alres rib id violentl. p rf 5 whence isit that the latter has been so assaulted! which he had been takon.. This was the publi: | pore und oppose et, described, did violently | Pearce then remarked “ that all they wanted was | as deemed this institution incompatible with trial. Thrasher was allowed no lawyer, 00 in pursuance of his combination to oppose and re- | hair of any one’s head.” Lewis nesses, and no defence. His sentence, is asthe | sist the said laws of the United States, prepared | groes were not property,” Fiscal’ requested, a § é im designed to prevent the arrest of ifth—That thedefendant, | their property, and that they did not wish to hurt a | their interest, or where it was repugnant to pene tlw rag Eg Wale at the Culnes slaves Tioagne to the late Mr. Ce “y plied “that States, that some new and terrible anomaly has amounted, so far as the United States is concerned, nd then walked away. | prudently, and progressively. But everywhere, the | been introduced into the national logisiation by | %@ Betbing more than ® high misdemeanor. The - | the ular feeling, it was abolished cautiously, eight years hard labor at the and composed divers books and pamphlets, ma- | By this time another gang of negroes had arrived. | solemn obligations of the constitution, to surrender death which resulted fr: nee, ase atondive a - di 7 7 2 the act of 180? The answer to this inquiry hs ted from the violenee, in this q npg ag with anxions suspense, tras'- —— a wachinne testaleed teateemeahe aod armed with guns and clubs, and Hanway rode | the shecsoding slave to his rightful claimant was alikesimple and conclusive. The act of 17% pro- pect of the case, would be indictable and punishabla that the good sense and humanity ef the Cap in General will not allow him to approve of this sentenee. Thrasher is still in the dungeon, ani allowed from 12 to 2, to see through tho iron bare, them and said something in a low tone of | admitted, respected, and complied with. Men had i as murder by the laws of Pe: lvania, could He moved his horse out of the way of the | not then become wiser than the laws, nor had they pens pes hh Pina ag i ee ageh pe, pe not be ered an act of treason. It ats jur pe * the negroes shouted, and immediately firei | learned to measure the or and unambiguous let- ei Pe “ culiar prevince to pass upon the question med 7 ments to indace and persuade persons vice in any of the United States by the f, who had escaped into this district, as ry direction. Hanway rode a short dis- | ter of the constitution, by an artificial standard of | {h¢ local State magistracy. State legislation, by ther persons, citizens of this district, to , interdicting the action of tho local State magis. | 284 you have a right to infer troasonable de ‘ lown the lane ing from Parker's | their own creation; and to obey or disregard it ao- . from the facts and circumstances which atten Tua ht nets tari ints srs: | aneuané Pee nah annie he | eat, ae ng Mr wang the acs | orig ei ce So all at | par made gl umd he pagan | te naan Fi combanin 2 nce * , tion—but he thinks he shall be banished from the | structions how and upon what oceasions the traitor- | was shot, and begging him to come and | of the pe P of tl ree. This Sesage ee Vy Be ed it a A ey aren can ‘bo steanlaued whinnat tieeet (sland. ee ee ous purposes should and ought to be carried into | which Lewis rofased to do. This convers | ofsentiment soon manifested itself in the enactments | Jr 743 was wutforea jaye neo hs ae ows “The concert of ee,” says hie honor ent uac ia ¢ Mamaek Cine 2 effect. The overt acts which I have now described | took place at the bars on the short lane, whisi | of State Legislatures, and in the decisions of State lifeless inactivity, all was il with th jute Sy udge Kane, “may be adduced from the concerted the Maunder of Money aaa | embrace all the charges which the government | will be shown to you upon the ray we purpose | judiciaries consequent upon them, which created | wijjin, e ‘ose who were | action itself, or it may be rred from facts oo- ‘The court of Cecil county” Maryland, on the nts against this defendant. I need notsay | giving in evidence. hile this conversation | such embarrassments difficultigs in the execu- “ keep the word of promise to the eat curring at the time or afterwards, as well as be- ‘24th, took up the trisl of award Ginn, for the Toiyou that they nee ee, of - Papen was going on, and just before the firing com- tion ofthe act of 1793, as to render it, practically And break it to the hope. fore.” In this gw. case, however, there ig murder of Henry Pritchard, which resulted in a 4 vpintosciers jy ee, onal rer mag J oe oe von] meneed, Edward oo was standing in th: speaking, a dead letter in some of the States. | do But when the act of 15) imparted life to ite tor- | D0 necessity for inferentie! proof, so far as this de- cericign. Tar living acs wore llitel»: | fry." moareiealgoreemena, Ru tru, | th howe: Matha MMuGetma wes Sending eter eel ince sajeaeninns Poet zeudae | Rayenceara tng amas, by wach | eal eet ea as coord — 7 im: Di Po & | legislation, or of these iat wo its promises cou mn and dec! . He avo rmination bg Pritohard was sitting quietly with his | ae of this deneeipiien Se eeegeiad eesnrsenee, near him; Dickinson Gorsuch was in the shor: alike fatiguing to you, and of little valus in the bust forth Brae Bredhrnenn and reales thea was wees regard the scoutgams ol too Pee family on the afternoon of that day, when E ui ok myo e Ours er ane but seldom | lane, not so near his father as was Joshua: consideration ofthe matter in hand. I will, hew- | so long filled the public ear dial laws, with- | gitiv Steve law of 1550, or any other act of Con Ginn, the prisoner at the bar, was seen approach- | —— te be tyranny to bap oon 9 subjects of | and Dr. Pearce, Mr. Hutchings, and Mr. Nelson ever, refer to the legislation of our own Common- | out corresponding sanctions, by which their pro- | aree upor that subject, and in the very presence of is house. Caroline Pritchard, sister of = cree bo poe my ape 2 hoe oppress | wore somewhere near the same spot. The num- wealth, which, though geverally characterised by | posed remedies may be obtained, are, at best, legis- | 40 armed band of negroes, who had come together deceased, who had been for some time keepi vr at 3 sul als ion mes intolerable, | ber.of negroes assembled at this time must hav» fidelity to the ational compact, still shows that | lative cheats. Honest legislation never professes | to resist the law, ho declared “that its supremacy house for Jobn Ginn, the father of one ey are viet ghd effort shake it off. The | exceeded one hundred. Bofore the firing com- this new influence, to a certain extent, had even | to afford @ remedy, withoat farnishing the means shall not be maintained by him, and that the righte and had that day, on accouut of th failure to — volves them in the guilt of | menced, Edward Gorsuch was struck with a clubon affected her Ger? steadfast and solid character. | necessary and proper to attain it. To furnish such of these insurgents were superior to stavate of treatment of dward, taken refug f pt pears and triel and conviction for the offence back part of the head, and fell forward en his Onthe 26th of Mareh, 182, the Legislature of | means of arriving at constitutional rights, was the | the Uniced States. “They are arm was his her brother Henry. When E: , | follow asa consequence. In governments 4o oon- | bandsandknees. As ho was struggling to rise, | Pennsylvania passed an act entitled ‘An act | end and object of the act of 15%), to which the act | language, “(and can defend themselves.” &, d re house of Pritehard, his inquii for Caroline, | situted, the only hope for a change exists in revo and inthe act of getting upon his foet, he was s! to give effect to the provisions of the constitution | of 1793 had bi inad. te, b; « It ie manifest therefore, that Castner Hanway, so aalab esretl ir 4 ‘het the was thane, mee. ae hence the attempt made isto overturn down, and when prostrate on the ground, was cu: of the United States, relative to fugitives from la- teonsting ‘State legislation. Thi, eels mao far asin him og resolved to preveus the sxe- duct became furious—threateniog to shoot her. ive Slave laws in every in- fabric of government. Under sushcir- | on the head with acorn cutter, and beaten with | bor, for the protection of free people of color, and | the head and frovt of the offeadi i. | cution of these coanmienees, Sects may become patriotism, and Dickinson Gorsuch, on perosiving theattack to prevent kidnappiug.” ‘T'hi seatute purporting | ated law. It was Sectut tas pheaien ot ta stance, and to make them a dead letter in the _ icine throughout the world may pon his father, immediately rushed to hi: to be intended to Rtv effect to the provisionsof the | jaw, that the defendant arrayed himself by com- neighborhood and county in which he resided, ent! ly wis =i My success. No such excuse, hi assistance, when his revolver was knocked out of constitution, relat: fugitives from labor. de | bination, confederacy, and preconcert with others, | far as any ability or influence of his could coatri- ever, cata w ith us ; for our institutions are b his hand, and he himeeif shot in various parts of the | prived all the ald and justices of the posse | who pre bereafter (9 answer for their participa- | bute tothatend. His condu pow e = erent right of the people to chang body, producing intense agony, and rendering him | of power to hear a1 ide upon the cases of such | tion in the crime. [t was ia opposition to the | wards Kline, incited and em | boa choy Gon of governmont 4 In the cons , utterly helpless. Joshua M. Gorsuch was attacked | fugitives, confini ir authorit tothe issuing | execution of this law, that he associated himself | lowedafterwards. The the mind of Ginn. Henry then attempted to leavo | {hv soveral ‘States taodeg ate as ia these of | at the samo timo, and defonded himself with bis | of warrante for the arrest of such fugitives, which | with others equally reckless, armed with the wea- | rally rerponsible for it all his own house for the purpoe of procu the the soveral i ‘ates, m “y mal» yg it which | revolver, whieh he twice sonpred at his assail- | warrants were, however, to bo made returnable pons of blood and death. [t was with this ob- | countecance this flagrant violation of law, and cadconee of totm Kinesid’n neighbor, Sat was | Oe rove jons can be @ eee & monioas ants, but the powder being it would not go before, and the complaint to be heard by a judge ject, and by this association, that the blood of | the excited and infuriated blacks in chee prevented by Ginn, who took hold of one o acts of eae re oy thay can be changed | off. He was also struck down, and cruslly beaten of the proper county. The ninth seotion of the | an unoflending American citizen, enteriog into | putation of Pennsylvania never would have beem Pritchard's children, and threatened to blow out ix: | o* tepee nce this defendant, if ho has per- | end maltreated. When the firing commenced, | act declaring that no alderman or justice of the | our Commonwealth in pursuit of his legal rights, and rhithed by the disgraceful occurrences of aris~ brains. ‘The wife of Honry Pritchard had, in ti: petrated the ofoace. charged ia the indictmoat, has | Kline, in order to avoid its effects, escaped into a | peace should take cognizance of the case of ai acting under the tion of the laws of the Union, | titna, and a worthy and respected citizen of ao ad- meantime, excaped to the hoase of Kiceald, to pro- | raised his hand without éxouse or palliatlon against | corn field, but, on secing Dickingon Gorsuch | fogitive from Jabor from any of the Uni | hasbeenshed. Shbali this deed of horror and blo: jing State would not have been wantonly aod gure his ancistanee. While dhe wae abeont, Ha the freeet ovens on the face of the earth. He struggling in the short lane, apparently wounde! | States, under the act of 17%, and forbidding | go unpunished? Shall its repetition be invited by | wickedly murdered in cold blood, while engaged im continued bis efforts to pacify Ginn, s soumtle has not only set its laws a lance, by seeking to and ing, at the risk of his own life he wentto them to grant any certificate or warrant of re- | the impunity which shall follow the offender! The the aseertion of his legal rights. On Castner Han~ ‘and Pritchard, ia attempting to ward off ta overturn them, and to reader them inoperative and | his and placed him under the shelter of moval of such fugitive upon the application, afi- response to there questions must come from the ju way especially rests the guilt of the innocent blood gun,'was shot in the hand and arm ‘The wound:d void, but the conspiracy into which be enterad could be procured. Hutehings ani davit or testimony of any person or persons box There rests its terriblere*ponsibility tt the which was spilt on that occasion. He may finally man then made his escape in the direction of his assumed a deeper and more malignant dye, from two of the others, were at this time making | whatsoever, under the said act of Congress, or | response shall be in the affirm: then a dark and } etcape ite consequences before this jr. pee Wife and Me Kiet ete wee rection of fi; | the wanton manner, in which it was actually con- the nogroes being iafull pursuit. 1): any other, law, authority or act of the Congress of | heavy cloud will have passed over the sun light of | cause of tome flaw or defect in our proof, bat he house of the latter. They had heard twice the re summated. | allude to the murder in which it ro orsuch retreated by theeh the United States, under penalty of being guilty of | the American Union. For w' the laws of the | never can flee from the reproaches of bis owm t of fire arms, and, on the approach of Henry, tulted. An honorable and worthy citizen of a amber of shots were fired at the a misdemeanor in office, and of incurring fino of | Union, enacted in pursuance of the constitution, and | conscience, or the condemnation which every Founa him wounded in the mannor describ k neighboring State, who entered our Commoa- + | not less than five hundred, nor exceeding one | responsive to its most direot obligations, cannot be honorable and upright citizen will pronounce upom det 80 take torte wealth, under the protection of the constitution | side and shoulder, anda ball also passed throug’ | thousand dollars. ‘This ast, howover, autho- | enforced in its judicial tribunals, thon, indeed, is the | bis conduct. He is, however, in your bands, and k and laws of the Union, for the purpose of claiming | his hat just above his forehead. In the effort to | rized the efore whom an alleged fugitive beginning of the end arrived bject which | will say nothing that is in any calculated ta his property under due process of law, was morci- | escape, these latt, gentlemen rushed tow: Han- | was brow take bail for his rance remains hr me to conside: t the facts | create or array prejudices against or his case. lessly beaten and murdered, in consequence of the | way, who was still aoe horse in long | until final hoaring, or in defaule thoreot to | which [ expect to pro gh a forcible | [ have thus, gentlemen of the jury, in the exeou “ family, he attempted to reas acts of the defendant and his associates. Itisa | lane. They besought him to prevent the negroes | commit him to thg goinmott iil of Hhe O>uDty | resistance of the publi 4 the actors in | of my duties as opening counsel for the Uni Tone met oa the way by Ginn, who # disgrace upon our national eseutoheon; a blot | from pursuing further. He said he could not. | for safe keeping. i the experise of tho owner. | it guilty of treason, in levy aigst the Uni- | States, detailed the facts of tho Nps behead him in the left breast, from the effocts of which | "POM the fair fame of Pennsylvania; aad a re- | They thon asked for permission to get upon his | This law wes followed by the ast of the Sof | ted States. I propose now to coms'dcr this question, | to try, a8 | believe thoy will be estab! by tha wound instant death ensued proach which nothing short of the conviction | horse, which would afford the mean: of making | Marsh ‘147 the third section of which absolutely | and with thai view invils your attention, as well as | ¢vidence; and | have also explained the legal prin~ The case wat given to the jury on Monday night. = Pani a ot te offenders can Ste Sine their escape. He refused their reyuest, ani | ryids any judge of the commonwealth from taking {lat ofthe court, to a consideration of the law of the | ples which | consider applicable to them. bn and, on Tuesday morning, they returned averiictot | OM, amie a men of the jury, to judge | putting whip to his horee, 9 uit at full Speed. | cognizance of case of any fugitive from labor | I need not say that you will reo he law | ties, in SS ee falfilled. Your guilty. in this Biante ie oe being denied to De | from any ited Tindor the sot of | from the court, ani goat you are bound by the in- | graver and more solemn one is about to commence. A case, and I need not say to yo, ens if h, tht only hope was | 1793. The sixth section h ive in respect to | Never were duties more intensely ieteresting im any one who shoull offer to protect her. Tho deceased asked him if it were possible for him to | commit sucha deed. ‘Yes,’ was hisreply, “d— | her, or any person who would take her part The attempt of Henry to dissuade and paci ’, hin tended to produce a greater degroo of passion in t brother short distance off; thon, in saniatanasairgtae ” declares that “1 | steuctions which the court 1 ‘Thanks to Holden: i proves 4 defendant to haze yd4h ond of tho | in continuing to run. Portes was in frout, acd | sbuli not be lawful te uso any jail or prison of the | jt. In this particular there (+ no difference between | their heron pg of more absorbingly importact im [For the New York Herald | corm And poles etaBedy of Christiana, that | Joshua Gorsuch bebipt. In looking back, Dc. | commonwealth for the detention of any person civil and criminal causes. [0 is, theroforo, in no | their resulta, The simple fact, that the issue yout } ze twa nogro who had previously fired a’ | claimed as a fugitive from servitude,” and subjects sense true, that you are judges of the law, | are about to determine, involves the life of » ha- On reading, in the Henan, the testimony given | de cim guilty of the offence. I do- | Peare , by Mr. Samuel Holden, in relation to the lary | however, in the course of my remarks to | him, strike Joshua (iorsuch with a guo, which | any jailor or prison keeper offending against its You must take the ioterpretation which the | man being, imparts to it an absorbing in sohool disaster, before the Coroner's jurv;—Tho | S&Y a which may be calculated in any waz | foiled him to the earth, and only essapsd himsel! | provisions, to a heavy peouniary fine, and to a dis court puts upon it. You have a right to apply the | and demande, what | am satisfied it will re little tonds looked up at me, acd said—‘ Man, help | Wenecessarily to inflame your minds against tue do- | by rushing into a noighboring farm house, whore | qualification for life from holding such offiv of jaw to thefacts, but youhave no right to go further. | Your anxious, scrupulous, and careful attention rents es meup.’ Ifever I had strength, it was then” fendant. [trust ho may be able to convinoa you | ho was concealed from view. Joshua M. Gorsuch | trust. The effeot of the firet of these acts wasto What, then, isthe law! [havo stated that trea- But the inherent gravity of such #9 lseee as that he bad no age in the dreadful trans- | and Dickinson Gorsush were subsequently carrie! | render futile so mach of the act of Congress of the | son against the laws of the United States consists, | fumes even &' deeper responsibility, from the ne actions of the 11th of September, and thus rescue | to houses in the vicinity, and were a long tim» | 12th of February, 1793, asimparted jarisdistionin agcording to the constitution, only in levying war it, and frogs his name from the heft | and infamy whioa would | recovering from their wounds. In connection | the casos of fugitives from labor to State aldermen | against the United States, and giving to their | the inflaence your verdict ma. in the fatare otherwise attach toit. He has aright to demand | with this narrative of facts, I will alo state tha: | and justices of the peace, thus depriving the cnomies aid and comfort. What is meant by levy- | harmony and permanence of National Unica. a fair and impartial hearing at your hands, and a | there are two or three other matters whioh wil! | claimant of a convenient and necessible tri- ing war sgninst the United States, | preoeed now io | It may be that, the great political problem is now The impulse of his noble heart candid and dispassionate consideration of the tes cppeee ta the course of the testimony to which | | bunal, before which he could bring his arrested | consider. It isa phrase, the meaning of which ix | to be solved by you, whether Sheteee ed eins ae Eccate iente timony which he may produce. Nay, ho is en | shalleall your attention. First—That 0 toon a: | fugitive servant; and referring him to the county well settled and undersicod, both in (i | the United States, and every As haven titled to even mote than this; for every rea- | Hanway appeared at the bars, the negross in Par | judges. These officers, in many instances, wore the United States. ‘1 tute of | | recegnined and regarded, throughout 1 . | sonable doubt which may arise in the causo, is | ker’s house appeared evidently to bo encourage’ ‘only to be found at remote distances from the [i]., chapter 2, contains ceven descriptions of tre the supreme whether ite anequi man The massive door still bare hie way; to be rerolved in his favor. Heisnotto be required | ard gave a shout of satisfaction; when before tho’ | plage of arrest, and during a large portion of their son, and two ‘of them are thus stated by Blask- | dates are to be evaded and disregarded, or wertheg Ove mighty eflort more, to establish his innocence, but it is for the prove | they had appeared discouraged, and had asked fo- | time were actually engaced in other pablic bavi gone:—iet. Ifa mando levy war against our Lori be obeyed, in that spiris of hoseety aad ay ob d bolts asander burst, cution to make out and prove his guilt. Tho govern- | time. Second—That before the firingcommonoe'!. | ness which neceesarily hindered them trom givir the King in bie realm: 2d. If amen adhere unto ths | ‘0 necessary to its perpetuity, and #6 om its effective a lies the door! | ment of the United States does not ask any man’s | Kiine had given orders to his party to retreat, an! | the prompt attention to such cases, which their na nas the guardian of the 1 aaah . J K ng’s enemies in his realm, giving to them aid aot j > Mey ne'er miechance o'ertake the man conviction on testimony which is uncertain in | they were actually engaged ia the retreat when tt ture demanded. The necessity of ¢ ng “comfort in the realm of eleewhero. These are the each inditidun A ho Who bore ro bra part; | its nature, ax d not adetjuate to establish the facts | attack was mado. Taird—That Edward (dorsacs. | arrested fagitive for long distances, throu two kinds of treason which are defined inthe con rh States composing the American on. o But He who bie «e ones, for which it ia adduced. On the othor hand, wo | who was killed, had no weapon of any kiad in bi. | ations sometimes strongly preju ‘iced agains: | tation of the United States, and the words asel to | | u the deop trust way bo salely reprsed. Blows #0ii) bie licm beart HO, | havea right to expect from you fair agdimpag- ‘ hands, and was therefore cruelly, wanjonly, and aa pptitution of slavery, rendered arrests hagardows, dereribe them are borrowed from the English oq bie Vernerated ball, from waieh the declaration of