Record Data
Source citation
"Williams," Rochester (NY) Frederick Douglass' Newspaper, February 19, 1852.
Newspaper: Publication
Rochester (NY) Frederick Douglass' Paper
Newspaper: Headline
Williams
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Michael Blake
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
WILLIAMS, the last victim of the government, prosecuted in Philadelphia for an alleged violation of the Fugitive Slave Act, has, after a severe trial, been acquitted. Thus have Fillmore and Webster miserably failed of their diabolical purpose. The crime of Williams, as charged, was, that he informed the persons at Christiana claimed as fugitives that the hunters were on their track! It is said that trials growing out of this case has cost the government $70,000. What has the North to do with slavery?