Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Crawford” in chapter 12, page 487 of Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3:
...d the act, but justified it in an address to the court, likening it to the cases in which husbands avenge their wounded honor. Around him were Butler, Mason, and other Southern friends.
The judge, Crawford by name, sentenced him to pay a fine of three hundred dollars. This paltry fine, without imprisonment, shows the pro-slavery temper of the federal courts
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