us combination to
expose, resist, and prevent the execution of the said laws of
the said United States, in the State and District aforesaid, he,
the said James Jackson, afterwards, to wit, on the day and year
first aforesaid, in the State, county, and district aforesaid,
and within the jurisdiction of this court, with the said persons
whose names to the grand inquest aforesaid, are as yet unknown,
did, wickedly and traitorously assemble against the said United
States with the avowed intention, by means of force and
intimidation, to prevent the execution of the said laws of the
United States in the State and district aforesaid, and in
pursuance and execution of such, their wicked and traitorous
combination and intention, then and there to the State,
district, and county aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of
this court, with force and arms, with a great multitude of
persons, to wit, the number of one hundred persons and upwards,
armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say, with
guns, swords, and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as
defensive, being then and there unlawfully and traitorously
assembled, he, the said James Jackson, did, knowingly, and
unlawfully assault the said Henry H. Kline, he, the said Kline,
being an officer appointed by writing, under the hand of the
said Edward D. Ingraham, Esq., a commissioner under said laws,
to execute warrants and other process, issued by the said
commissioner in the performance of his duties as such; and he,
the said James Jackson, did, then and there, traitorously, with
force and arms, against the will of the said Kline, liberate and
take out of his custody, persons by him before that time
arrested, and in his lawful custody, then and there being, by
virtue of lawful process against them issued by the said
commissioner, they being legally charged with being persons held
to service or labor in the State of Maryland, and owing such
service or labor to a certain Edward Gorsuch, under the laws of
the said State of Maryland, who had escaped therefrom into the
said district; and so the grand inquest aforesaid, upon their
oaths and affirmations, aforesaid, do say, that he, the said
James Jackson, as much as in him lay, did, then and there, in
pursuance and in execution of the said wicked and traitorous
combination