erer escaped. No serious efforts were made by
the State authorities to bring that offender to justice. "He has the
same right to repossess his slave here as in his own State;" the same
right to kill him if he attempts to escape! Mr. Toombs is modest--but
we shall soon see the slaveholder not only sit down with his slaves at
the foot of Bunker Hill Monument, but _shoot them if they attempt to
run away_! Nay, Gentlemen, we shall see this Court defending the
slave-hunter's "privilege."

(5.) Here is another case, Gentlemen of the Jury, in which this same
Judge Grier appears, and with his usual humanity. This is a brief
account of the case of Daniel Kauffman. In 1852 he allowed a party of
fugitive slaves to pass the night in his barn, and gave them food in
the morning. For this he was brought before Judge Grier's court and
fined $2,800! It was more than his entire property. Gentlemen, there
are persons in this room who gave money to Mr. Kauffman, to indemnify
him for his losses; were not they also guilty of treason, at least of
a "misdemeanor?" They "evinced an express liking" for Freedom and
Humanity, not Slavery and bloodshed.

(6.) But here is yet one more,--which you shall have in the language
of another:--

"In a case of attempted Slave-catching at Wilkesbarre, in
Pennsylvania, the Deputy Marshal, Wyncoop and his
assistants, had behaved with such atrocious and abominable
cruelty, that the citizens felt that justice demanded their
punishment for the outrage. They were, accordingly, arrested
on a warrant issued by a most respectable magistrate, on the
oath of one of the principal inhabitants of the place. A
writ of habeas corpus was forthwith sued out, returnable
before Judge Grier. When the District Attorney, Ashmead,
moved the discharge of the relators, (which, it is needless
to say, was ordered,) Judge Grier delivered himself to the
following effect. 'If _habeas corpuses_ are to be taken out
after that manner, _I will have an indictment sent to the
United States Grand-Jury against the person who applies for
the writ, or assists in getting it, the lawyer who defends
it, and the sheriff who serves the writ_, to see whether the
United States officers are to be arrested and harassed
whenever they attempt to serve a process of the United
States.'"

2. Gentlemen of the Jury, you might suppose that love of liberty had
altoge