persuade persons held to service in any of the United
States, by the laws thereof, who had escaped into the said
district, as well as other persons, citizens of said district,
to resist, oppose, and prevent, by violence and intimidation,
the execution of the said laws, and also containing therein,
instructions and directions how and upon what occasion, the
traitorous purposes last aforesaid, should and might be carried
into effect, contrary to the form of the act of Congress in such
case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the
United States.

JOHN W. ASHMEAD,

Attorney of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The abolitionists were leaving no stone unturned in order to
triumphantly meet the case in Court. During the interim many tokens of
kindness and marks of Christian benevolence were extended to the
prisoners by their friends and sympathizers; among these none deserve
more honorable mention than the noble act of Thomas L. Kane (son of
Judge Kane, and now General), in tendering all the prisoners a sumptuous
Thanksgiving dinner, consisting of turkey, etc., pound cake, etc., etc.
The dinner for the white prisoners, Messrs. Hanaway, Davis, and
Scarlett, was served in appropriate style in the room of Mr. Morrison,
one of the keepers. The U.S. Marshal, A.E. Roberts, Esq., several of the
keepers, and Mr. Hanes, one of the prison officers, dined with the
prisoners as their guests. Mayor Charles Gilpin was also present and
accepted an invitation to test the quality of the luxuries, thus
significantly indicating that he was not the enemy of Freedom.

Mrs. Martha Hanaway, the wife of the "traitor" of that name, and who had
spent most of her time with her husband since his incarceration, served
each of the twenty-seven colored "traitors" with a plate of the
delicacies, and the supply being greater than the demand, the balance
was served to outsiders in other cells on the same corridor.

The pro-slavery party were very indignant over the matter, and the Hon.
Mr. Brent thought it incumbent upon him to bring this high-handed
procedure to the notice of the Court, where he received a few crumbs of
sympathy, from the pro-slavery side, of course. But the dinner had been
so handsomely arranged, and coming from the source that it did, it had a
very telling effect. Long before this, however, Mr. T.L. Kane had given
abundant evidence that he approved of t