Book/Printed Material Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of John Hossack, indicted for rescuing a fugitive slave from the United States deputy marshal, at Ottawa, Ill., Oct. 20, 1859; delivered in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, Saturday, March 4, 1860
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Image 1 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … ARGUMENT OF H. S. FITCH, ESQ., United States District Attorney, ON THE TRIAL OF JOHN HOSSACK, INDICTED FOR RESCUING A FUGITIVE SLAVE FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPUTY MARSHAL, AT OTTAWA, ILL., OCT.…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 2 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … ARGUMENT OF H. S. FITCH, ESQ., U. S. DIST. ATT'Y, ON THE TRIAL OF JOHN HOSSACK, INDICTED FOR RESCUING A FUGITIVE SLAVE, OCTOBER 20, 1859, DELIVERED IN THE U. S. DISTRICT COURT,…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 3 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 4 The learned counsel, (Mr. Arnold,) “apprehended” that we would fail in this point, and he “apprehended” we would fail in that point; and, in fact, he was tremulously apprehensive lest the…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 4 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 5 was a child-like, primitive tribute to the power of the orator. It was comforting during the heavy business of this protracted case to refresh one's mind with these interesting specimens of…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 5 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 6 proposed to play for the amusement of the public, an interesting farce, called “Martyrdom made easy; or, Search for sympathy under difficulties.” The role of the martyr has always been considered…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 6 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 7 Whatsoever things are snug, whatsoever things are palatable, whatsoever things are pleasant; if there be anything good to eat, if there be anything agreeable to take, them “brethren in bonds” had…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 7 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 8 services. It is pleasant to turn from so mercenary a spectacle to the exalted position occupied by the opposite counsel. Ben Johnson says a lawyer's tongue will not wag, nor scarce…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 8 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 9 He testifies that Jim disappeared without his knowledge or consent; that he, the master, knew not where he was until he heard he was lodged in the Jonesboro' jail. During that…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 9 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 10 a writ of habeas corpus from the Supreme Court of this State, to have his body at Ottawa at a certain time, prevented him from so proceeding, and rendered it impossible…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 10 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 11 may be said with reference to the legality of the deputation of the United States Marshal, both by pard and in writing. The Judge will instruct that if you believe the…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 11 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 12 that he had nothing to do with them. He indignantly repudiated and repelled the insinuation of the counsel that they were his associates, although circumstances compelled him to be in their…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 12 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 13 a thousand dollars, the sum he had paid years before, and the value assessed by law. His time, labor, trouble, vexation of spirit, was all laid aside, and he merely demanded…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 13 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 14 that there were quibbles and technical questions that could be raised, either resulting from the character of the pen with which Mr. Dougherty wrote this appointment, or the color of the…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 14 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 15 at the secret conclave, but most resolutely absent from the public risk. He had all the corruption of the criminal, without the courage to commit the crime. He is one of…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 15 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 16 that he was claimed by Albright, as United States Deputy Marshal, as a fugitive from labor, and remanded to his custody to be taken to Springfield, there to abide by the…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 16 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 17 he claims of Mr. Phillipps and the authority of Mr. Albright. What was the report of that committee and what was the result and object of their investigation? Simply to obtain…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 17 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 18 on of hands upon the slave, or that he used manual force. He was not obliged, in order to violate the law, to take possession of the negro and carry him…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 18 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 19 of those “pantings for liberty,” to wit, Canadian freedom and starvation, which eloquent counsel has informed us agitated his bosom, and evidently prefers to return to the “land of Egypt and…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 19 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 20 being apparent in his face, it attracted the attention of a calm, considerate observer, who had preserved his presence of mind, having no prejudice to subserve, and no purpose to advance.…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 20 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 21 same offence, and were therefore more or less witnesses to their own case, which their testimony had the effect of damaging, without benefiting the Hossack's. Any criticism upon the patent perversions…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 21 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 22 consoling to criminals and so profitable to attorneys. It would, doubtless, be more agreeable to the prisoner, if the Federal Judiciary would conform more to the latitude and longitude of the…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 22 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 23 this law, is obedience to conscience. They say they are conscientiously opposed to it, and yield obedience to the higher law. As Daniel Webster says: “Gentlemen, the North mountain is high,…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 23 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 24 and vacant synagogue, with no sign of God within. Theirs is a patriotism acknowledging no country, a citizenship acknowledging no allegiance. Their opinions are paramount to all law, their dogma to…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 24 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 25 are the counsel's secret sentiments—but he lacks the hardihood to announce them. His premises are precisely those of Garrison and Wendell Phillips, but he dare not state their only logical and…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 25 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 26 But I advise Mr. Hossack, before liberating the black slaves who wander here from the south, to liberate himself from that most abject of slavery—the slavery of cant. He cannot help…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 26 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 27 to denounce the laws of my country, nor devoted much attention to searching for a pretext to violate them, you might naturally suppose I had not the same extensive information of…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 27 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 28 what no one ever denied, namely: that Liberty, in the abstract, was a natural right—and to disprove what no one ever asserted, namely: that a slave, in seeking his liberty, committed…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 28 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of … 29 safeguards of the Constitution. All this your judgment shall determine. Now and here, gentlemen, abandoning all the blandishments of the hour, filled only with the divinity of truth, with the holiness…- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Image 29 of Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of …- Contributor: Fitch, Henry S. - Hossack, John - Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
- Date: 1860
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Title
- Argument of H.S. Fitch, Esq., United States District Attorney, on the trial of John Hossack, indicted for rescuing a fugitive slave from the United States deputy marshal, at Ottawa, Ill., Oct. 20, 1859; delivered in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, Saturday, March 4, 1860
Names
- Hossack, John, 1806-1891
- Fitch, Henry S.
- Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts), 1834-1906
Created / Published
- Chicago, Press & Tribune Printing Office, 1860.
Headings
- - Hossack, John,--1806-1891--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Trials (Kidnapping)--Illinois--Ottawa
- - Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
- - United States.--Fugitive slave law (1850)
Medium
- 29 p.
Call Number/Physical Location
- KF223.H65 H67 1860
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- ltf96001560
Online Format
- online text
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