Book/Printed Material The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters of law and justice, against the cruel and oppressive treatment to which, under color of legal proceedings, he has been subjected, in the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland
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Image 1 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … GEN WM L. CHAPLIN. Lith B.W. Thayer & Co.- Date: 1851
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Image 2 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … THE CASE OF WILLIAM L. CHAPLIN; BEING AN APPEAL TO ALL RESPECTERS OF LAW AND JUSTICE, AGAINST THE CRUEL AND OPPRESSIVE TREATMENT TO WHICH, UNDER COLOR OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, HE HAS BEEN…- Date: 1851
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Image 3 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … IN EXCHANGE Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by WILLIAM R. SMITH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. LC- Date: 1851
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Image 4 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … ADVERTISEMENT. So far as relates to the treatment of Mr. Chaplin in the District of Columbia, this hook is addressed to the whole people of the United States. The District is theirs.…- Date: 1851
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Image 5 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … APPEAL. The District of Columbia, as everybody knows, is a tract of about fifty square miles, embracing the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and a rural district besides, with a population of…- Date: 1851
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Image 6 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 6 exists therein by virtue of the adoption of the Maryland laws as they stood in 1800. But this is denied by many, and among others by William L. Chaplin; and for…- Date: 1851
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Image 7 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 7 kingdom of England; and any such laws so pretended to be enacted were, of course, without authority, null and void. In the phraseology of the present day, they were unconstitutional and…- Date: 1851
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Image 8 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 8 can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences may follow from this decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and…- Date: 1851
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Image 9 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 9 jury according to the course of that law, and to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their first emigration, and which by experience…- Date: 1851
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Image 10 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 10 Hence we conclude—and how can we help it?—that in the year 1800, when the law of Maryland was declared to be the law of the District of Columbia, that law did…- Date: 1851
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Image 11 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 11 afford to be gagged, for the convenience of eight or ten thousand slaveholders, by such a law as this, we must submit to it. It is obvious that under this law…- Date: 1851
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Image 12 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 12 We have already shown, that when the District passed under the legislation of Congress, there was no legal slavery existing there. We now proceed to maintain, in the second place, that…- Date: 1851
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Image 13 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 13 States, used the words, “no freeman shall be deprived,” &c. New York suggested “no person,” and that—the most comprehensive of terms—was recommended by Congress, and adopted by the States. Would not…- Date: 1851
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Image 14 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 14 greatest and most noble functions of courts of justice and legislative bodies to rectify these long-established wrongs. Negro slavery had existed in England for a century and a half, or more,…- Date: 1851
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Image 15 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 15 And here we insert a testimonial as to Mr. Chaplin's character, furnished by Mr. Todd himself, in an article published in the New York Evangelist of October 30, 1850, on the…- Date: 1851
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Image 16 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 16 on the principles which a God of mercy and of justice will sanction. He does not see as we do. Perhaps he thinks we are cold, selfish and hypocritical, in our…- Date: 1851
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Image 17 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 17 the purpose of furnishing information as to the proceedings of Congress upon the slavery and other kindred questions, which at that time were very much slurred over, and often entirely omitted,…- Date: 1851
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Image 18 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 18 reasonable and humane might readily admit and honestly entertain it. But, however Mr. Chaplin might be relieved, by this view, from the painful and humiliating idea, that he himself, as a…- Date: 1851
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Image 19 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 19 Yet long after that age they would still continue to be held as slaves. In these, and a great many other ways, many untenable claims to hold colored persons as slaves…- Date: 1851
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Image 20 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 20 heard of at the South. If there are any who hold to it, they do not dare avow their opinion,—at least not above their breath. The Declaration of Independence is treated…- Date: 1851
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Image 21 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 21 misguidance, of “a bloody abolitionist,” seems to be thought, by some, a mere robbing of the Egyptians,—a thing rather meritorious than otherwise. So, in the matter of obtaining evidence, all possible…- Date: 1851
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Image 22 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 22 Northern men who may visit Washington against this very dangerous person, who has constituted himself chief slave-catcher and conservator of the slave property of the District; and who, in that capacity,…- Date: 1851
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Image 23 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 23 their claimants were communicated to Mr. Chaplin. He was merely told they were two smart young men, who had been in hiding for some time past, but who were followed up…- Date: 1851
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Image 24 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 24 stood ready with a rail to lock the wheels of the carriage, and stations were assigned to the rest of his company,—two to seize the heads of the horses, two to…- Date: 1851
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Image 25 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 25 in which Stephens' man had been found, and made prisoner. Two pistols were discovered on the back seat of the carriage, one a single barrel, the other a six-barrel revolver. The…- Date: 1851
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Image 26 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 26 For the purpose of quieting their excitement, the mayor of the city waited upon Mr. Chaplin, in order to obtain from him, among other things, a disclaimer of any connection between…- Date: 1851
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Image 27 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 27 The contrast was indeed striking; nor was it possible for any man of honorable sentiment, whatever his interests or feelings on the subject of slavery might be, not to sympathize with…- Date: 1851
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Image 28 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 28 assailants, while in the act of whipping up his horses, was twice struck with a cane, and knocked from his seat into the road. Of course, he must have held the…- Date: 1851
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Image 29 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 29 New York, one of them a lady. They found him very sore from his bruises, and with his hand and head badly swollen; but in excellent spirits, and well treated, his…- Date: 1851
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Image 30 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 30 past, for his conscientious and manly judicial independence, and for his just regard for the personal rights of all appearing before his tribunal. When in his full vigor, he would never…- Date: 1851
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Image 31 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 31 multitude,” into doubling the amount of the bail, which he had originally made up his mind to be sufficient, and which was in fact double or triple that which the circumstances…- Date: 1851
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Image 32 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 32 it can send him to another district. And when this duty is performed, and the accused is released by an acquittal, or dismission of the prosecution, then he can be sent…- Date: 1851
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Image 33 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 33 officer of the county, undertaking to argue, in violent speeches addressed rather to the assembled populace than to the magistrate, that in a case of this sort he had no authority…- Date: 1851
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Image 34 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 34 large portion of the inhabitants and infuriates another, it still leaves a certain number of men of honor, of Christian principle, of justice and humanity, at least of good-nature, ready to…- Date: 1851
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Image 35 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 35 Pennsylvanian, corrupted by his residence in a slaveholding State, immediately informed against his guest, who, on the testimony of their loose and confidential conversations (whether correctly or not stated by the…- Date: 1851
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Image 36 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 36 we can mention only one or two. The prisoners committed were principally slaves, either runaways or persons seized on execution and detained there for sale. One little fellow, some twelve or…- Date: 1851
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Image 37 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 37 For a long time it seemed as if there were only one man in that great city, or, indeed, in the State of Maryland, who had courage enough, being fully indemnified…- Date: 1851
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Image 38 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 38 unpopular business, surrounded with dangers on every side; liable to be taken up at any moment, and instead of relieving Mr. Chaplin, finding himself in the same pit. These friendly warnings…- Date: 1851
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Image 39 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 39 engines of a horrible oppression. Thus urged and instigated, the grand jury—themselves, it is to be feared, equally malignant—returned seven bills of indictment against Mr. Chaplin. Three of these were for…- Date: 1851
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Image 40 of The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters … 40 of greater interest to the people of Maryland than any other; and though he did not venture to ask the judge to set the law at defiance by refusing to take…- Date: 1851