Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851.

_The Commissioner._ An alleged fugitive is only excluded from being a witness in the case of a complaint against himself as a fugitive. This does not exclude his admissions in t...

All evidence of identity having failed, the government is driven to its last shift. Col. Thomas is called in, and he testifies that the agent of Mr. Debree said to him, in the C...

_Amended Count._ Also for that on the fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, at Boston, in said District, one Charles G. Da...

_Frederick Warren_, deputy marshal. I left the court room about five minutes before two o'clock--went down stairs--came back by the passage up to the supreme court--went to the...

I take the facts to be these:--Mr. Davis, being a counsellor of this Court, and possessed of no small sympathy for persons in peril of their freedom, when it was known that a pe...

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I will proceed at once to the evidence. The question here is, has a law of the United States been violated? I throw to the winds every question except whether this defendant is...

SEC. 6. _And be it further enacted_, That when _a person held to service or labor in any State or_ Territory of the United States has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into a...