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Title: 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.

Author: Various

Release Date: February 27, 2010 [EBook #31424]

Language: English

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United States vs. Charles G. Davis.

REPORT

OF THE

PROCEEDINGS AT THE EXAMINATION

OF

CHARLES G. DAVIS, ESQ.,

ON A

CHARGE OF AIDING AND ABETTING IN THE
RESCUE OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE.

HELD IN BOSTON, IN FEBRUARY, 1851

BOSTON:
WHITE & POTTER, PRINTERS, 4 SPRING LANE.
1851.

NOTE.

The following Report is published at the request of numerous persons who
are of opinion that all which is known of the operation of the Fugitive
Slave Bill, should be spread before the public. To the legal profession
it will be of interest, as developing new points in the construction and
application of a Statute, destined to be of great political importance
now, and in future history. They will be able to judge of the
constructions upon the Statute, and of the law of evidence, as laid down
and applied by the Commissioner, and contended for by the representative
of the Government. Not the profession alone, but the public, can judge
of the temper, and manner, as to parties and witnesses, in which the
prosecution was pressed, and the judicial duties performed.

It will be well for every reader to bear in mind that this is the
tribunal to which the late Act of Congress gives final jurisdiction in
deciding whether a man found a free inhabitant of a free state, shall be
exiled, and sent into endless slavery.

The Commissioner tries an issue, on