d Rail Road, and
to add now, that those suspicions were founded on fact, will, doubtless,
do him no damage.

In order to draw the contrast between Freedom and Slavery, simply with a
view of showing how the powers that were acted and judged in the days of
the reign of the Fugitive Slave Law, unquestionably nothing better could
be found to meet the requirements of this issue than the charge of Judge
Kane, coupled with the indictment of the Grand Jury. In the light of the
Emancipation and the Fifteenth Amendment, they are too transparent to
need a single word of comment. Judge and jury having found the accused
chargeable with Treason, nothing remained, so far as the men were
concerned, but to bide their time as best they could in prison. Most of
them were married, and had wives and children clinging to them in this
hour of fearful looking for of judgment.

THE LAW OF TREASON, AS LAID DOWN BY JUDGE KANE.

The following charge to the Grand Jury of the United States District
Court, in reference to the Slave-hunting affray in Lancaster county, and
preparatory to their finding bills of indictment against the prisoners,
was delivered on Monday, September 28, by Judge Kane:

"Gentlemen of the Grand Jury:--It has been represented to me,
that since we met last, circumstances have occurred in one of
the neighboring counties in our District, which should call for
your prompt scrutiny, and perhaps for the energetic action of
the Court. It is said, that a citizen of the State of Maryland,
who had come into Pennsylvania to reclaim a fugitive from labor,
was forcibly obstructed in the attempt by a body of armed men,
assaulted, beaten and murdered; that some members of his family,
who had accompanied him in the pursuit, were at the same time,
and by the same party maltreated and grievously wounded; and
that an officer of justice, constituted under the authority of
this Court, who sought to arrest the fugitive, was impeded and
repelled by menaces and violence, while proclaiming his
character, and exhibiting his warrant. It is said, too, that the
time and manner of these outrages, their asserted object, the
denunciations by which they were preceded, and the simultaneous
action of most of the guilty parties, evinced a combined purpose
forcibly to resist and make nugatory a constitutional provision,
and the statutes enacted in pursuance of it: and it is ad