An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ADMUnSTKATION OF FILLMOEE. 621. tradict the right of habeas corpus, was not sufficient to silence theopposition of the Northern abolitionists. The first application of the law was in the case of James was arrested on the 2Tth of September, in the city of New York,examined before the United States Commissioner, and was deliveredover to his claimant. N Detroit, the arrest
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ADMUnSTKATION OF FILLMOEE. 621. tradict the right of habeas corpus, was not sufficient to silence theopposition of the Northern abolitionists. The first application of the law was in the case of James was arrested on the 2Tth of September, in the city of New York,examined before the United States Commissioner, and was deliveredover to his claimant. N Detroit, the arrest of a negro, as an alleged fugi-tive slave, created so much excitement, with threatsof violent rescue, that the military were called out,and, with loaded arms, escorted the fugitive from theprison to the court-room. The matter was finallycompromised by the purchase of the slave, by pub-lic subscription, for the sum of $500. This case occurredin the early part of October, and about the middle of themonth occurred the famous case of the Crafts in Bos-ton. William and Ellen Crafts, reputed fugitive slaves,resided in the city of Boston. William H. Hughes and JohnKnight, as agents for the owner of the fugitives, visited Boston forthe purpose of c
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