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Alexandria Anthony Burns APPENDIX armed arrest Attorney back to Virginia Boston Brent Butman character Charles F church citizens claimant command Commissioner Committee Commonwealth Constitution counsel County of Alexandria Court House court-room Dana decision defence duty Edmands escape evidence execution extradition Faneuil Hall favor Federal force freedom friends fugitive slave act fugitive slave law Governor Grimes habeas corpus Hallett hand hundred dollars identity jail Jennison Judge of Probate justice letter liberty Loring Massachusetts master Mattapan Mayor McDaniel ment military Millspaugh morning negro night o'clock once opinion owed service owner Parker party passed police posse presented prisoner prisoner's proceeded proved purchase purpose question Quock record removed replied Richmond Samuel E service and labor Sewall slaveholder slavery statute street Suffolk Suttle testimony Theodore Parker tion took trial troops U. S. Marshal United United States Marshal vessel Virginia witness writ of personal writ of replevin
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Page 282 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 282 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee, even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best ; thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 99 - States marshal and bayoneted foreigners, clothed in the uniform of our army and navy, that they have a right to be there. I congratulate the city of Boston that her peace here is no longer to be in danger. Yet I cannot but admit that while her peace here is in some danger, the peace of all other parts of the city has never been so safe as while the marshal has had his posse of specials in this courthouse.
Page 101 - I have no doubt that he is right and honest in doing so. He did see Anthony Burns in Richmond, Virginia, on the twentieth day of March, and Anthony Burns was first missing from there on the twenty-fourth. But the prisoner was in Boston, earning an honest livelihood by the work of his hands, through the active month of 9* /March, from the first day forward.
Page 263 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 232 - ... or are sold to us: and such shall have the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God established in Israel concerning such persons doth morally require, provided, this exempts none from servitude who shall be judged thereto by authority.
Page 99 - Why, Sir, people have not felt it necessary to lock their doors at night, the brothels are tenanted only by women, fighting-dogs and racinghorses have been unemployed, and Ann street and its alleys and cellars show signs of a coming millennium.
Page 247 - ... Loring, one of the Commissioners of the Circuit Court of the United States for the said District, then and there to answer to the complaint of Charles F. Suttle, of Alexandria in the said State of Virginia, merchant, alleging, under oath, that the said Anthony Burns, on the twenty-fourth day of March last, did, and for a long time prior thereto had owed service and labor to him, the said Suttle, in the...
Page 118 - In this spirit and with these views steadily in prospect, it seems to be the duty of all judges and magistrates to expound and apply these provisions in the constitution and laws of the United States ; and in this spirit it behooves all persons, bound to obey the laws of the United States, to consider and regard the.m.
Page 40 - ... a heart ready to sacrifice anything for the freedom of an oppressed man, let him do it to-morrow. If I thought it would be done to-night, I would go first. I don't profess courage, but I do profess this : when there is a possibility of saving a slave from the hands of those who are called officers of the law, I am ready to trample any statute or any man under my feet to do it, and am ready to help any one hundred men to do it. But wait until the daytime. The vaults of the banks in State street...