United States v. Hanway
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
Hanway was indicted for treason against the United States, the punishment for which is death. A number of other persons also stood indicted at this term for the same offence in which he was said to be engaged. The bill charged Hanway with intending to resist, in a treasonable way, the execution of an act of congress passed September 16, 1830 [9 Stat. 462], and commonly called the “Fugitive Slave Law.”
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Hanway was indicted for treason against the United States, the punishment for which is death. A number of other persons also stood indicted at this term for the same offence in which he was said to be engaged. The bill charged Hanway with intending to resist, in a treasonable way, the execution of an act of congress passed September 16, 1830 [9 Stat. 462], and commonly called the “Fugitive Slave Law.” As already stated, this law, its expediency, its constitutionality, and ever}1 thing connected with it, had been the theme of violent party debate. And a resistance to it, with which Hanway and…
1Opinion of the Court
GRIEK. Circuit Justice
(charging jury). 3 [We must commend the patient attention which you have thus far given to this most important and interesting case. It has taken up much of your time, and caused you some personal inconvenience, but not more, perhaps, than the importance of the issue, both as respects the interests of the public and your duty to the prisoner whom you have in charge, has necessarily required. It has been the anxious desire of the court, notwithstanding the pressure of other duties, to give ample time and opportunity for *122the careful and full investigation of the facts and…
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