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there with force and arms, with the said persons to a great
number, to wit, the number of one hundred persons and upwards,
armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say, with
guns, swords, and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as
defensive, being then and there, unlawfully and traitorously
assembled, did wickedly, knowingly, and traitorously resist and
oppose one Henry H. Kline, an officer, duly appointed by Edward
D. Ingraham, Esq., a commissioner, duly appointed by the Circuit
Court of the United States, for the said district, in the
execution of the duty of the office of the said Kline, he, the
said Kline, being appointed by the said Edward Ingraham, Esq.,
by writing under his hand, to execute warrants and other process
issued by him, the said Ingraham, in the performance of his
duties as Commissioner, under the said laws of the United
States, and then and there, with force and arms, with the said
great multitude of persons, so as, aforesaid, unlawfully and
traitorously assembled, and armed and arrayed in manner as
aforesaid, he, the said, James Jackson, wickedly and
traitorously did oppose and resist, and prevent the said Kline,
from executing the lawful process to him directed and delivered
by the said commissioner against sundry persons, then residents
of said county, who had been legally charged before the said
commissioner as being persons held to service or labor in the
State of Maryland, and owing such service or labor to a certain
Edward Gorsuch, under the laws of the said State of Maryland,
had escaped therefrom, into the said Eastern district of
Pennsylvania; which process, duly issued by the said
commissioner, the said Kline then and there had in his
possession, and was then and there proceeding to execute, as by
law he was bound to do; and so the grand inquest, upon their
respective oaths and affirmations aforesaid, do say, that the
said James Jackson, in manner aforesaid, as much as in him lay,
wickedly and traitorously did prevent, by means of force and
intimidation, the execution of the said laws of the United
States, in the said State and District. And further, to fulfill
and bring to effect, the said traitorous intention of him, the
said James Jackson, and in further pursuance, and in the
execution of the said wicked and traitoro