ll and miserable and traitorous faction can resist and annul the
laws of the United States." "Put down these factions [the Free-Soil
Party, the Liberty Party, the Anti-Slavery Societies], overwhelm them
with shame, disgrace, and ruin, or you are not good citizens
fulfilling the bonds that bind you to us of the South."

The government Attorney declared that Mr. Hanway and others

"Had no right to refuse to assist because it was repugnant
to their consciences. Conscience! Conscience ... is the
pretended justification for an American citizen to refuse to
execute a law of his country." "_Damnable, treasonable
doctrine._" "He has become a conspirator, he has connected
himself with them, and all their acts are his acts, and all
their intentions are his intentions."

"The whole neighborhood was not only disloyal, but wanting
in common humanity:" "the whole region is infected," "in
_that horde of traitors_;" "a whole county, a whole
township, a whole neighborhood are involved in plotting
treason." "When you see these things _can you not infer ...
that he went there by pre-arrangement_!" "When you see a man
... not saying one word to save his dear colored friends
from the guilt of murder, I say it is passing human
credulity to say that you cannot _infer_ in all that _a
feeling of hostility to the law, and an intention to resist
it_."

"The consequences [of the verdict] are not with the jury:"
the responsibility will not be with you--you are not
responsible for those just consequences."

"When you allege that a master has come into Pennsylvania
and illegally seized and possessed himself of his slave
without process, you are to inquire, 'Has he done that which
he had authority to do in his own State?' You are to look to
the _laws of his own State_; for the Supreme Court
says,[179] 'He _has the same right to repossess his slave
here as in his own State_.'" "He who employs a man said to
have come from Maryland without being satisfied of his
freedom, is himself guilty of the first wrong."

[Footnote 179: 16 Peters, Prigg _v._ Penn.]

Senator Cooper closed for the government. Law was not enough for him;
he would have the sanction of "Religion" also. So he read extract from
a Sermon. Gentlemen of the Jury, you have not had the benefit of Rev.
Dr. Adams's prayers in this court; i