Narrative of Facts in the Case of Passmore WilliamsonPennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, 1855 - 24 sidor The escape of Jane Johnson and two children, slaves of John H. Wheeler, the trial of Williamson and others concerned, and refusal of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court to issue writ of habeas corpus. |
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31 NORTH FIFTH abolition of Slavery affidavit Alderman application assault and battery asserts bail Ballard and Custis Bloodgood's Hotel board the boat brought carriage charge of perjury Charles Gilpin citizen of Pennsylvania city of Philadelphia colored man asked commitment common law commonwealth counsel custody decision defendant dinner dishonorable submission disobeying a writ District Attorney Mann District Court fact Federal freedom Fugitive Slave Act guilty habeas corpus Honor imprisonment Isaiah Moore James Martin Jane Johnson John Ballard John H Judge Kane refused Judge Kelley Judge Knox judicial July jury law-defying Judge laws of Pennsylvania master Nicaragua o'clock outrage Passmore Williamson Pennsylvania law personal liberty petition petitioner PHILADELPHIA ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE possession prison proceedings respect respectfully slaveholders soil sovereignty statute strong impression Supreme Court sylvania testimony told United Vandyke vindicate Virginia want of jurisdiction wanted to go Wheeler Wheeler's family witness writ of habeas writ was issued York
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Sida 6 - It is not for us to inquire why, in the creation of mankind, the inhabitants of the several parts of the earth were distinguished by a difference in feature or complexion. It is sufficient to know that all are the work of an almighty hand.
Sida 20 - That the power of the several courts of the United States to issue attachments and inflict summary punishments for contempts of court, shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of the said courts, or so near thereto as to obstruct the ^administration of justice, the misbehavior of any of the...
Sida 5 - ... fortitude have become unequal to the conflict, we are unavoidably led to a serious and grateful sense of the manifold blessings which we have undeservedly received from the hand of that Being from whom every good and perfect gift cometh. Impressed with these ideas, we conceive that it is our duty, and we rejoice that it is in our power, to extend a portion of that freedom to others which hath been extended to us.
Sida 6 - ... greatness of which can only be conceived by supposing that we were in the same unhappy case. In justice, therefore, to persons so unhappily circumstanced, and who, having no prospect before them whereon they may rest their sorrows and their hopes, have no reasonable inducement to render their...
Sida 6 - ... ours, and from each other; from whence we may reasonably, as well as religiously, infer, that He who placed them in their various situations, hath extended equally His care and protection to all, and that it becometh not us to counteract 'His mercies. We esteem it a peculiar blessing granted to us, that we are enabled this day to add one more step to universal civilization, by removing, as much as possible, the sorrows of those who have lived in undeserved bondage, and from which, by the assumed...
Sida 6 - ... unnatural separation and sale of husband and wife from each other, and from their children, — an injury, the greatness of which can only be conccii$e4 by supposing that we were in the same unhappy case...
Sida 6 - ... they were by nature entitled to, but has cast them into the deepest afflictions, by an unnatural separation and sale of husband and wife from each other, and from their children ; an injury, the greatness of which, can only be conceived by supposing that we were in the same unhappy case.
Sida 11 - I know of no statute of Pennsylvania which affects to divest the rights of property of a citizen of North Carolina, acquired and asserted under the laws of that State, because he has found it needful or convenient to pass through the territory of Pennsylvania.
Sida 6 - ... different from ours and from each other ; from whence we may reasonably as well as religiously infer, that He who placed them in their various situations hath extended equally his care and protection to all, and that it becometh not us to counteract his mercies. We esteem it a peculiar blessing granted to us, that we are enabled in this day to add one more step to universal civilization...
Sida 5 - When we contemplate our abhorrence of that condition to which the arms and tyranny of Great Britain were exerted to reduce us...