Record Data
Source citation
“Important Decision,” Boston (MA) Emancipator & Republican, June 28, 1849, p. 4: 2.
Original source
Philadelphia (PA) North American
Newspaper: Publication
Boston Emancipator & Republican
Newspaper: Headline
Important Decision
Newspaper: Page(s)
4
Newspaper: Column
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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.
IMPORTANT DECISION. – Much interest was created some time ago by the arrest of Mr. Kauffman, a wealthy farmer of Cumberland county, in this State, for giving food and assistance to a family of fugitive slaves, which were brought from Maryland or Virginia, and left on his premises. The owner of the slaves brought suit, and gained, in one of the inferior courts, a verdict against Mr. Kauffman of [$2000?]. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, and on Monday last, after a full argument, Judge Coulter delivered an opinion reversing the decision of the lower court, on the ground that it was a matter which did not belong to State jurisdiction, but should have been brought in one of the Federal Courts under the acts of Congress.
Phil. North Am.
