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seats, find him guilty; the judge sentences; the President signs the Death-warrant, and Marshal Freeman hangs the man--to the great joy of the Commissioner's and the Marshal's guard who vacate the brothels once more and attend on that occasion and triumph over the murdered Quaker. But the mischief does not stop there; the Boston slave-hunters are not yet satisfied with blood; the judge constructs another grand-jury as before, only getting more of his kinsfolk thereon, and taking his law from the impeached Judges Kelyng and Chase, charges that all persons who _advise_ to an act of levying war, or evince an "_express liking_" for it, or "_approbation_" of it, are also guilty of treason; and "in treason all are Principals." Accordingly the jury must indict all who have evinced an "express liking" of the rescue, though they did not evince approval of the rescue by such means. It appears that Rev. Mr. Grimes in the meeting-house the Sunday before the treason was consummated, had actually prayed that God would "break the arm of the oppressor and let the oppressed go free;" that he read from a book called the Old Testament, "Bewray not him that wandereth," "Hide the outcast," and other paragraphs and sentences of like seditious nature. Nay, that from the New Testament he had actually read the Sermon on the Mount, especially the Golden Rule and the summing of the Law and the Prophets in one word, Love,--and had applied this to the case of fugitive slaves; moreover, that he had read the xxvth chapter of Matthew from the 31st to the 46th verse, with dreadful emphasis. Nay, anti-slavery men--in lectures--and in speeches in the Music Hall, which was built by pious people--and in Faneuil Hall, which was the old Cradle of Liberty, had actually spoken against man-stealing,--and even against some of the family of kidnappers in Boston! Still further, he adds, with great solemnity, a woman--a negro woman,--the actual wife of the criminal Nason--had brought intelligence--to her husband--that Mr. George T. Curtis,--the brother of the judge,--had issued his warrant--and Mr. Butman--"with a monstrous watch"--was coming to execute it--she told her husband,--and--incited him to his dreadful crime! If you find these facts you must convict the prisoners. So thirty or forty more are hanged for treason. Gentlemen of the Jury, these fictitious cases doubtless seem extravagant to you. I am glad they do. In peaceful times, in the majority
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