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B. APPENDIX B
LIST OF IMPORTANT FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES
The following list is not intended to be exhaustive: it by no means
includes all the cases illustrative of the work of the Underground
Boad, but it represents fairly well the various phases of that work,
and does not intentionally omit any of the famous cases. Less than
one half of the list here given will be found in Mrs. McDougall's
Fugitive Slaves, Appendix D, pp. 124–128.
Early escape to Canada.
1748. Negro servant escapes from the English to Canada: New York
Colonial Manuscripts, X, 209.Case of ship Friendship.
1770. Harbored a slave: Moore, Slavery in Massachusetts, 117.
Somersett case.
1772. England refuses to return a fugitive slave: Moore, Slavery in
Massachusetts, 117; Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery, 163; Goodell,
Slavery and Anti-Slavery, 44–52; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage,
I, 189–193; Broom, Constitutional Law, 6–119; Howells, State Trials,
XX, 1; Taswell-Langmead, English Constitutional History, 300, n.Dalby's fugitive.
1786. Aided by Quakers in Philadelphia: Sparks, Washington, IX,
158; Applegarth, Quakers of Pennsylvania, 463.Slave escaped from Drayton.
1786. Difficult to apprehend because, as Washington declared, there
were "numbers who would rather facilitate the escape of slaves than
apprehend them when runaways." Lund, Origin of the Late War, I, 20.First recorded case of rescue. (Quincy's case.)
1793. Alleged fugitive rescued from the court-room in Boston: Edw.
C. Learned, Speech on the New Fugitive Slave Law, Chicago, Oct. 25, 1850;
Whittier, Prose Works, II, 129, "A Chapter of History"; Goodell, Slavery
and Anti-Slavery, 232; Boston Atlas, Oct. 15, 1850; McDougall, Fugitive
Slaves, 35.Washington's fugitive.
1796, October. Public sentiment in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
prevents the return of a fugitive slave to President Washington: Magazine
368of American History, December, 1877, p. 759; Charles Sumner,
Works, III, 177; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 35.Columbia case.
1804. General Boude defends a runaway: Smedley, Underground Railroad,
26.Case of Wright vs. Deacon.
1819. Trial before Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to determine status
of an alleged runaway: 5 Sergeant and Rawle's Reports, 63.Case of Hill vs. Low.
1822. Action brought in Circuit Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania for penalty under the law of 1793 for
obstructing arrest of a fugitive: 4 Washington's Circuit Court Reports,
327.Case of Commonwealth vs. Griffith.
1823. Prosecution in Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts of a
slave-catcher for seizing without a warrant a runaway in New Bedford:
2 Bickering's Reports, 15.Escape of Tice Davids.
1831. Mysterious disappearance of a slave at Ripley, Ohio, leads to the
naming of the Underground Railroad: Rush R. Sloane, Firelands Pioneer,
July, 1888, p. 35.Dayton (Ohio) case.
1832, January. Rendition of the fugitive, Thomas Mitchell, at Dayton,
Ohio, followed by the suicide of the negro, at Cincinnati, when on
his way back to slavery: Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, II, 554,
555.Case of Johnson vs. Tompkins.
1833. Prosecution of a claimant for seizure and removal of his escaped
slave from Pennsylvania to New Jersey; followed by counter prosecution
of the abolitionists before Circuit Court of the United States: 1 Baldwin's
Circuit Court Reports, 571; 13 Federal Cases, 840.Case of Jack vs. Martin.
1835. Action under New York law for recovery of a fugitive from
New Orleans: 12 Wendell's Reports, 311.Basil Dorsey case.
1836. Trial and rescue of Dorsey in Bucks County, Pennsylvania:
Smedley, Underground Railroad, 356–361; E. H. Magill, "When Men
were Sold. The Underground Railroad in Bucks County," in The Bucks
County Intelligencer, Feb. 3, 1898.Matilda case.
1837, March. Rescue of a slave at Cincinnati, Ohio, on her way from
Virginia to Missouri with her master. Later she was found in the
employ of James G. Birney, who was tried for harboring the fugitive,
369while Matilda was remanded to her master: Schuckers, Life and Public
Services of S. P. Chase, 41–44; Warden, Private Life and Public Services
of S. P. Chase, 282–284; 8 Ohio Reports.Schooner Boston case. (Georgia and Maine controversy.)
1837. Controversy between Georgia and Maine over a stowaway on
the schooner Boston, who escaped through Maine to Canada: Wilson,
Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 473; Niles's Register, LIII, 71, 72,
LV, 356; Senate Journal, 1839–40, pp. 235–237; Senate Doc., 26 Cong.,
1 Sess., Vol. V, Doc. 273; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 41.Case of Peter, alias Lewis Martin.
1837. Fugitive adjudged to his claimant by Circuit Court for the
Southern District of New York: 2 Paine's Reports, 350; 16 Federal
Cases, 881.Philadelphia case.
1838. Attempted rescue of a captured fugitive by a crowd of colored
people: Liberator, March 16, 1838.Marion (Ohio) case.
1838. Rescue of a fugitive at Marion, Ohio, from the hands of his
claimant, who sought to detain him after the decision of the court in the
slave's favor: Aaron Benedict, The Sentinel, Mt. Gilead, Ohio, July 13,
1893.Escape of Douglass.
1838. Escape of Frederick Douglass from Baltimore to New York:
Life and Times of Douglass; Williams, Negro Race in America, II, 59,
422; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 501, 502.Isaac Gansey case. (Virginia and New York controversy.)
1839. Controversy between Virginia and New York over extradition of
three negroes demanded by Virginia for aiding a slave to escape: U. S.
Gazette, "Case of Isaac," Judge Hopkinson's Speech; Wilson, Rise and
Fall of the Slave Power, I, 474; Seward, Works, 11, 449–518; Von Holst,
Constitutional History, II, 538–540: Senate Documents, 27 Cong., 2 Sess.,
Vol. II, Doc. 96; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 41.Granville (Ohio) rescue case.
1841. Discharge of fugitive, John, after a hearing obtained through a
writ of habeas corpus; followed by the departure of the negro over an
underground route: Bushnell, History of Granville, Licking County, Ohio,
307, 308.Burr, Work and Thompson case.
1841. Prosecution for aiding fugitive slaves in western Illinois: Wilson,
Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 71; Goodell, Slavery and Anti-Slavery,
440; Thompson, Prison Life and Reflections; Asbury, History of
Quincy, Illinois, 74.Van Zandt case. (Jones vs. Van Zandt.)
370
1842–1847. Prosecution for aiding runaways in southwestern Ohio:
5 Howard's Reports, 215; Letter of N. L. Van Sandt, Clarinda, Iowa;
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 475, 476; Cobb, Historical
Sketches of Slavery, 207; 2 McLean's Reports, 612; Schuckers, Life and
Public Services of S. P. Chase, 53–66; Warden, Private Life and Public
Services of S. P. Chase, 296.Prigg case. (Prigg vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.)
1842. Prosecution for causing arrest and removal of a runaway contrary
to provisions of a state law. Decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States frees state officers from taking part in fugitive slave cases:
16 Peters' Reports, 539; Report of Case of Edward Prigg, Supreme Court,
Pennsylvania; Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery; Bledsoe, Liberty and
Slavery, 355; Clarke, Anti-Slavery Days, 69; Hurd, Law of Freedom and
Bondage, II, 456–492; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 472,
473; Von Holst, Constitutional History, III, 310–312.Latimer case.
1842. Famous fugitive slave case in Boston. Fugitive released by
purchase: Liberator, Oct. 25, Nov. 11, Nov. 25, 1842, Feb. 3, 7, 17, 1843,
and Aug. 16, 1844; Law Reporter, Latimer Case, March, 1843; Eleventh
Annual Report of Mass. Anti-Slavery Society; Mass. House Journal, 1843,
pp. 72, 158; Mass. Senate Journal, 1843, p. 232; Wilson, Rise and Fall of
the Slave Power, I, 477; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 39, 40.Milton Clark rescue case.
1842, September. Release of the fugitive, captured in Lake County,
Ohio, by writ of habeas corpus in Ashtabula County, Ohio, followed by
his disappearance by way of the Underground Railroad: Geneva (Ohio)
Times, Sept. 14, 1892.Eells case.
1842–1852. Prosecution for harboring a slave in Adams County,
Illinois: 5 Illinois Reports, 498; 14 Howard's Reports, 13.Case of Charles T. Torrey.
1843. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves from Virginia: Wilson,
Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 80.Case of Delia A. Webster.
1844. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves from Kentucky: Rev.
Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 29, 1893.Case of Calvin Fairbank.
1844. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves from Kentucky: Rev.
Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 29, 1893.Marysville (Ohio) rendition case.
1844, September 10. Rendition of two fugitives captured on the Scioto
River, near Marysville, Union County, Ohio: Marysville Tribune, May
17, 1893; Letter of Mahlon Pickrell, Zanesfield, Ohio, March 25, 1893.Walker case.
1844. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves from Florida: Trial
and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, Liberator, Aug. 16, 31, Sept. 6,
13, Oct. 18, 25 and Dec. 27, 1844, Aug. 8, 15, and July 18, 1845; Wilson,
Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, 83; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 42.Case of State vs. Hoppess. (Watson case.)
1845. Action before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the circuit to
secure the liberation of a recaptured slave: 2 Western Law Journal,
279; Schuckers, Life and Public Services of S. P. Chase, 74–77; Warden,
Private Life and Public Services of S. P. Chase, 309.Case of Vaughan vs. Williams.
1845. Prosecution before the Circuit Court of the United States for the
District of Indiana for rescuing fugitive slaves: 3 Western Law Journal,
65; 8 Law Reporter, 375; 28 Federal Cases, 1115; 3 McLean's Reports,
530.Parish case. (Jane Garrison case.)
1845–1849. Prosecution of F. D. Parish for aiding fugitives at Sandusky,
Ohio: Firelands Pioneer, July, 1888; Warden, Private Life and
Public Services of S. P. Chase, 310; A. E. Lee, History of Columbus, Ohio,
I, 598.Toledo (Ohio) rescue case.
1847, February. Rescue of a fugitive from custody while his captor
was being tried on a charge of assault and battery before a justice of
the peace: Conversation with James M. Ashley, Toledo, Ohio, July, 1895,
and with Mavor Brigham, Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 4, 1895.Crosswhite rescue case. (Case of Giltner vs. Gorham.)
1847. Prosecution for obstructing arrest of fugitives at Marshall,
Michigan: Pamphlet proposing a "Defensive League of Freedom," by
E. G. Loring, and others, pp. 5, 6; 4 McLean's Reports, 402.Kauffman case.
1848. Prosecution of Daniel Kauffman, of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
for aiding fugitives: E. G. Loring and others, Pamphlet
proposing a "Defensive League of Freedom," pp. 5, 6.Garrett case.
1848. Prosecution of Thomas Garrett, of Wilmington, Delaware, for
aiding fugitive slaves: Still, Underground Railroad Records, 623–641;
Smedley, Underground Railroad, 237–245; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 60;
Wyman, New England Magazine, March, 1896.Case of Drayton and Sayres. (Case of the schooner Pearl.)
1848, April 18. Prosecution for attempting abduction of slaves from
Washington, D.C.: Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton; Wilson, Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 104; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 42.Ohio and Kentucky controversy.
372
1848. Controversy on account of extradition of fifteen persons, charged
with aiding fugitives, demanded by Kentucky: Liberator, July 14, 1848.Craft escape.
1848. Escape of William and Ellen Craft: Liberator, Nov. 1, 1850;
Still, Underground Railroad, 368; Clarke, Anti-Slavery Days, 83; Wilson,
Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 325; New England Magazine, January,
1890; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 59.Case of Richard Dillingham.
1848, December. Prosecution for attempting to abduct slaves from
Nashville, Tennessee: Benedict, Memoir of Richard Dillingham; Stowe,
Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 58, 59; Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, 713–
718; Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, II, 590.Clarksburgh (Indiana) case. (Case of Ray vs. Donnell and Hamilton.)
1849, May. Prosecution for aiding fugitive slave: 4 McLean's Reports,
504.Case of Norris vs. Newton and others.
1849, September. Fugitives captured in Cass County, Michigan, discharged
on trial at South Bend, Indiana, prosecution of those who
interfered following: 5 McLean's Reports, 92.First case under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. (Hamlet "kidnapping"
case.)1850, September 26. Rendition of James Hamlet, a free negro, living
in New York City: Fugitive Slave Bill, its History and Unconstitutionality,
with an Account of the Seizure of James Hamlet, 3; Wilson, Rise and Fall
of the Slave Power, II, 304; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 43, 44.Chaplin case.
1850. Prosecution of William L. Chaplin for attempting to abduct
slaves of Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens from Washington,
D.C.: Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 80–82; Case of
William R. Chaplin, etc. (Boston, 1851), p. 54.Sims case.
1851. Rendition in Boston: Liberator, April 17 and 18; Daily Morning
Chronicle, April 26, 1851; Twentieth Annual Report of Mass, Anti-Slavery
Society, 1855, p. 19; Trial of Sims, Arguments by R. Rantoul, Jr.,
and C. G. Loring; C. F. Adams, Life of Richard Henry Dana, 1, 185–
301; 7 Cushing's Reports, 287; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power,
II, 333; New England Magazine, June, 1890; McDougall, Fugitive
Slaves, 44.Shadrach case.
1851, February. Rescue in Boston: Liberator, Feb. 21, May 30, 1851;
Boston Traveller, Feb. 15, 1851; Boston Courier, Feb. 17, 1851; Washington
National Era, Feb. 27, 1851; Cong, Globe, 31 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix,
373238, 295, 510; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 10; Wilson, Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 329; Von Holst, III, 21; Statesman's Manual,
III, 1919; New England Magazine, May, 1890; McDougall, Fugitive
Slaves, 47, 48; Rhodes, History of the United States, I, 209, 210, 290.Christiana case.
1851, September. Riot in Christiana, Pennsylvania, caused by attempt
to arrest and remove fugitives, followed by trial on the charge of treason
of the persons alleged to have prevented the arrest: 2 Wallace Jr.'s
Reports, 159; 9 Legal Intelligencer, 22; 4 American Law Journal, n. s., 458;
9 Western Law Journal, 103; 26 Federal Cases, 105; Still, Underground
Railroad, 348–368; "Parker's account," "The Freedman's Story," T. W.
Higginson, Atlantic Monthly, Feb. and March, 1866; U. S. vs. Hanway,
Treason, 247; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 14; History of the
Trial of Castner Hanway and others for Treason; N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 12,
1851, and Nov. 26 to Dec. 12; Boston Daily Traveller, Sept. 12, 1851;
National Anti-Slavery Standard, Sept. 18, 1851; Lowell Journal, Sept. 19,
1851; Smedley, Underground Railroad, 107–130; Wilson, Rise and Fall of
the Slave Power, II, 328, 329; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 50, 51; Rhodes,
History of the United States, I, 222–224.Jerry rescue.
1851, October. Rescue of Jerry McHenry in Syracuse, New York:
Liberator, Oct. 10–17, 1851; S. J. May, Recollections of the Anti-Slavery
Conflict, 349–364; Life of Gerrit Smith, 117; Trial of H. W. Allen, 3;
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 305, 306; E. W. Seward,
Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State, I, 169, 170;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 44, 47–51.Parker rescue.
1851, December 31. Rescue by Mr. Miller: Wilson, Rise and Fall of
the Slave Power, II, 324; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 15;
Liberator, 1853, Feb. 4; Lunsford Lane, 113.Brig Florence rescue.
1853. Rescue of a slave on board by Capt. Austin Bearse: Bearse,
Reminiscences of Fugitive Slave-Law Days in Boston, 34.Case of Oliver vs. Weakley and others.
1853. Prosecution before the United States Circuit Court for the Western
District of Pennsylvania in October term for harboring fugitives: 2
Wallace Jr.'s Reports, 324.Louis case.
1853, October. Escape of the fugitive, Louis, from the court-room while
on trial in Cincinnati: Liberator, Oct. 28, 1853; Reminiscences of Levi
Coffin, 548–554.Bellefontaine (Ohio) rescue case.
1852, November. Discharge of the Piatt slaves from custody by the
374probate judge of Logan County, followed by their escape over the Underground
Railroad: Logan County Gazette, November, 1852; Letter of
the Hon. "Robert T. Kennedy, Bellefontaine, Jan. 22, 1893; Conversation
with Judge Wm. H. West, Bellefontaine, Aug. 11, 1894; Letter of R. H.
Johnston, Belle Centre, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1894.Case of Miller vs. McQuerry.
1853, August. Rendition of a fugitive, for several years a resident
near Troy, Ohio, by the Circuit Court of the United States at Cincinnati,
Ohio: 5 McLean's Reports, 481; 10 Western Law Journal, 528; 17
Federal Cases, 335; May, The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 28;
History of Darke County, Ohio, 324, 325.Mitchell's case.
1853. Prosecution of Mitchell, an abolitionist of Indiana, Pennsylvania,
for harboring slaves: 2 Wallace Jr.'s Reports, 313; Pittsburgh Dispatch,
Feb. 13, 1898.Glover rescue case. (Case of Ableman vs. Booth.)
1854, March 10. Rescue of Joshua Glover by a mob at Milwaukee;
followed by the prosecution of Sherman M. Booth, one of the rescuers
and a conflict between the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and the Supreme
Court of the United States: Liberator, April 7, 24, 1854; Wilson, Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 444; Mason, The Fugitive Slave Law in
Wisconsin with Reference to Nullification Sentiment, 1895; C. C. Olin, A
Complete Record of the John Olin Family, 1893; Byron Paine and A. D.
Smith, Unconstitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act. Argument of A. D.
Smith, Milwaukee, 1854. Wisconsin Supreme Court, Unconstitutionality
of the Fugitive Slave Act, Decision in case of Booth and Rycraft.Burns case.
1854, May 24. Rendition of Anthony Burns in Boston: Liberator, May,
June, 1854, Aug. 22, 1861; Kidnapping of Burns, Scrapbook collected
by Theodore Parker; Personal Statement of Mr. Elbridge Sprague, N.
Abington; Accounts in Boston Journal, May 27, 29, 1854; Daily Advertiser,
May 26, 29, June 7, 8, July 17; Traveller, May 27, 29, June 2, 3, 6,
10, July 15, 18, Oct. 3, Nov. 29, Dec. 5, 7, 1854, April 3, 4, 10, 11, 1855;
Evening Gazette, May 27, 1854; Worcester Spy, May 31; Argument of
Mr. R. H. Dana; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 256; Stevens,
History of Anthony Burns; New York Tribune, May 26, 1854; Clarke,
Anti-Slavery Days, 87; Greeley, American Conflict, I, 218; Wilson, Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 435; Von Holst, VI, 62; Garrisons' Garrison,
II, 201, HI, 409; C. F. Adams, Dana, I, 262–330; Rhodes, >History
of the United States, I 500–506; T. W. Higginson, Atlantic Monthly,
March, 1897, 349–354; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 45; Lillie B. C.
Wyman, New England Magazine, July, 1890.Sloane case.
375
1854. Prosecution of Rush R. Sloane before the District Court of the
United States at Columbus, Ohio, for dismissing fugitives from the custody
of their captors at Sandusky, Ohio: 5 McLean's United States Reports,
64; Rush R. Sloane and H. F. Paden, Firelands Pioneer, 47–49, 21–
22.Rosetta case.
1855, March. Release of the slave girl, Rosetta, by writ of habeas corpus
from the possession of her master, who brought her voluntarily to
Columbus, Ohio; followed some time later by the seizure and removal
of the girl, and the pursuit of her captors to Cincinnati, where they were
compelled by legal process to give her up: Warden, Private Life and
Public Services of S. P. Chase, 344, 345; A. E. Lee, History of Columbus,
Ohio, I, 602, 603.Erican case.
1855, May 28. Unsuccessful attempt at Columbus, Ohio, to persuade
two slave girls to leave their master, P. Erican, a Frenchman from New
Orleans, en route with his family to Europe: Lee, History of Columbus,
Ohio, 603.Margaret Garner case.
1856, January. Rendition of Margaret Garner at Cincinnati, Ohio, after
she had killed one of her children to prevent its return to bondage: Liberator,
Feb. 8, 22, 29, 1856; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 37; Lunsford
Lane, 119; Greeley, American Conflict, I, 219; Lalor's Cyclopaedia,
I, 207; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 446, 447; James
Monroe, Oberlin Thursday Lectures, Addresses and Essays, 116; Schuckers,
Life and Public Services of S. P. Chase, 171–176; Warden, Private Life
and Public Services of S. P. Chase, 346–350.Williamson case.
1856, January. Prosecution for aiding fugitives: Narrative of the Facts
in the Case of Passmore Williamson, Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society;
Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, New York, May 7,
1856, p. 24; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 9, 34; Wilson, Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 448.Johnson rescue case.
1856, July 16. Rescue of slave on ship from Mobile: Liberator, July 18,
1856.Gatchell case.
1857, January. Rendition of Philip Young: Chambers, Slavery and
Color; Fugitive Slave Law, Appendix, 197.Addison White case.
1857, May 15. Prosecution of Udney Hyde and others for aiding the
fugitive, Addison White, at Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio:
Beer, History of Clark County, Ohio; Howe, Historical Collections of
376Ohio, I, 384–386; Schuckers, Life and Public Services of S. P. Chase
177–182; Warden, Private Life and Public Services of S. P. Chase, 350,
351.Oberlin-Wellington rescue case.
1858, September 13. Rescue of the boy, John, at Wellington, Ohio, followed
by the prosecution of two rescuers, and the indictment of four of
the slave-catchers: Shipherd, History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue;
Liberator, Jan. 28, April 29, May 6, June 3, 10, 1859; Cleveland (Ohio)
Plain Dealer, July 6, 1859; Lunsford Lane, 179; Anglo-African Magazine
(Oberlin-Wellington Rescue), 209; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its
Victims, 108; New Englander, XVII, 686.Nuckolls case.
1858, December. Prosecution of Nuckolls of Nebraska City, Nebraska,
for injuring a person who remonstrated against his search for fugitives:
Rev. John Todd, Tabor (Iowa) Beacon, 1890–91, Chapter XXI, of a
series of articles entitled "The Early Settlement and Growth of Western
Iowa."John Brown's raid.
1858, December 20. Abduction of twelve slaves from Missouri, who
were conducted directly through to Canada: Sanborn, Life and Letters of
John Brown, 480–483; Redpath, Public Life of Capt. John Brown, 219–
221; Hinton, John Brown and His Men, 30–32, 221, 222; Von Holst,
John Brown, 104; I. B. Richman, John Brown among the Quakers, and
Other Sketches, 46–48; Life of Frederick Douglass, 1881, 280, 281, 318,
319; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 51, 52.Charles Nalle case. (Troy, New York, rescue case.)
1859, April 28. Troy Whig, April 28, 1859; Bradford, Harriet, the
Moses of Her People, 143–149; History of the County of Albany, N. Y.,
from 1609–1886, p. 765; Liberator, May 4, 1860.Jim Gray case.
1859, October 20. Dismissal of fugitive from arrest by decision of
State Supreme Court at Ottawa, Illinois, followed by the rescue of the
slave from the custody of the United States marshal, and the prosecution
of several of the rescuers: Ottawa (Ill.) Republican, Nov. 9, 1891; Pontiac
(Ill.) Sentinel, 1891–92; Speech of John Hossack, convicted of violation
of the Fugitive Slave Law, before Judge Drummond of the United States
District Court, Chicago, Ill. (New York, 1860.)Sheldon and Woodford case.
1860, March. Prosecution of Edward Sheldon and Newton Woodford,
of Tabor, Iowa, for aiding fugitives: Rev. John Todd, Tabor (Iowa)
Beacon, 1890–91, Chapter XXI, of series of articles on "The Early Settlement
and Growth of Western Iowa."Anderson case.
377
1860. Extradition case between United States and Canada: Pamphlets
on Anderson Case, Boston Public Library; Life of Gerrit Smith, 15; Liberator
Dec. 3, 1860, Jan. 22, 1861; British Documents, Parliament of Great
Britain, "Correspondence Respecting Case of Fugitive Slave, Anderson,"
London, 1861.Cleveland (Ohio) rendition case.
1861. Rendition of the fugitive slave, Lucy, in Cleveland, Ohio, to her
ter Wm. S. Goshorn, of Wheeling, West Virginia: Cleveland Herald,
date unknown.Iberia (Ohio) whipping case.
1861, November. Prosecution of the Rev. George Gordon, Principal of
Iberia College, for "resisting process" in the hands of a United States
deputy marshal, who was endeavoring to capture a fugitive slave on the
night of Sept. 20, 1860. The deputy and his assistants were caught,
disarmed taken to the woods and whipped. Principal Gordon witnessed
without protest the last ten or fifteen lashes, and for so doing was
sentenced to six months' confinement in the county jail, to pay a fine of
$300, and the costs of prosecution—$1000 or $1500 more: Rev. George
Gordon in the Principia, Nov. 29, 1861.John Dean case.
1862 June. Prosecution of John Dean, a prominent lawyer of Washington,
D.C., for protecting his client, an alleged fugitive just released,
from a second arrest: Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 197,
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